Perfect Days is probably one of the best films in 2023, which was duly recognized in the Cannes Film Festival with Mr. Yakusho winning the leading actor award.
The film is set in modern day Tokyo and succeeds in showing both stunning visuals and the pacifist simple approach in life by Hirayama, who's a mere toilet cleaner but manages to teach us so much about how life is something that should be enjoyed, every day cherished and molded into a version that is as perfect as possible and how little we actually need to be happy and stay mentally healthy.
It's an ode to how everything we encounter, from sickness to physical pain is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things and how everyone is just a human, regardless of ethnicity and color, invalidating the concept of nationalism, putting the individual and their mental self-preservation first.
The film is set in modern day Tokyo and succeeds in showing both stunning visuals and the pacifist simple approach in life by Hirayama, who's a mere toilet cleaner but manages to teach us so much about how life is something that should be enjoyed, every day cherished and molded into a version that is as perfect as possible and how little we actually need to be happy and stay mentally healthy.
It's an ode to how everything we encounter, from sickness to physical pain is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things and how everyone is just a human, regardless of ethnicity and color, invalidating the concept of nationalism, putting the individual and their mental self-preservation first.