Perfect Days - Movie Reviews (2024)

The richness of Días Perfectos consists of its traditional portrait where the protagonist sees each day with the enthusiasm of a new day. He lives each day in his uniqueness, aware that each one of them is unrepeatable...

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 22, 2024

Perfect Days is one of those...almost plotless films that tries to make a point and showcase a way of life, rather than tell a story. Hirayama and Tokyo are two memorable characters in this “good vibes” film that is also just a tad...self-indulgent.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

... as serene and gentle a film as you may ever see, yet it casts a spell in its quiet portrait of a man who has chosen to live a simple existence in the midst of Tokyo.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2024

It feels active, so the audience comes along, as if Wenders is leading them through parks, alleyways, and public toilets in Tokyo.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2024

Unlike most modern cinema, the theme of Perfect Days isn’t delivered via conflict.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2024

Wenders, who cowrote the script with Takuma Takasaki, finds considerable beauty in Hirayama’s routine.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Jun 27, 2024

The German auteur turns his lens on Tokyo for what is, in part, a celebration of the city’s excellent public toilets.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Watching Hirayama interact with the world in all its beauty is delightful. Delightful.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2024

While “Perfect Days” isn’t driven by its plot, but that doesn’t mean there’s a down stretch or a wasted move. It’s a movie about the importance of little moments — and a movie that’s full of such little moments, every one of which is a reward.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 20, 2024

The beauty of Perfect Days is its confident decision to breathe throughout the highs and lows of life.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 8, 2024

A beautiful peek into Hirayama's life, 'Perfect Days' captivates with subtle beauty, the essence of being, and celebrates life's little joys. Truly moving.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2024

The style is contemplative, but it is not passive. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 100/100 | Apr 29, 2024

In his best film in a long time, the German director returns to his stylistic origins and revisits the city of Tokyo with a discreet and minimalist look. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2024

We understand Hirayama’s good nature as related to his chosen way of life, but the mechanism of that relationship remains unfathomable.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2024

Wenders, with a poetic look and a moving story, frames a drama about unemployment, loneliness and the beautiful things of everyday life that are often overlooked by the wage slavery. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 18, 2024

The subtlety and lyrical beauty of Perfect Days is going to stay with me for a long, long time. As will one of the one of the most remarkable ending shots in recent memory. See this film.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2024

This languorous character study, combining the rhythms of a road movie with the stillness of an honest, simple life, amounts to a wonderful return to form for veteran auteur Wenders

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2024

But thanks to an absorbing performance by Yakusho in the lead role, Wim Wenders' Perfect Days proves more than worthy of its Oscar nomination.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2024

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and this film shows us that we could all use a look through the lens that both Hirayama and Wim Wenders use to appreciate the overlooked jewels in this life better.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 1, 2024

Drawing inspiration from Ozu's filmmaking style, Wenders crafts a narrative characterized by nuanced circularity and a gentle pulse.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2024