Perfect Days

"This movie is just delightful."

— Alonso Duralde, Breakfast All Day

"This is an ode to life’s little pleasures..."

— Raphael Abraham, Financial Times

"Perfect Days is a poem of extraordinary subtlety and beauty."

— Alissa Wilkinson, Vox

"A beautifully observed paean to caretaking — both physical and philosophical — the movie is led, with sublime joy, by the great Japanese actor Koji Yakusho."

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

"Perfect Days shares the poetic, contemplative rhythms of Ozu at his most lyrical; even Wenders’s squared-off frame evokes a quieter, more harmonious era."

— Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

"The fact that Wenders is consciously working in the spirit of the great Yasujiro Ozu... makes me even more of a sucker for a spare late-inning masterwork such as this."

— Ty Burr, Ty Burr's Watch List

"A sweet and sad slice-of-life about the comfort and sorrow of solitary repetition, buoyed by a Yakusho performance that rightly earned him the Best Actor prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival."

— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

"The director has crafted a film of deceptive simplicity, observing the tiny details of a routine existence with such clarity, soulfulness and empathy that they build a cumulative emotional power almost without you noticing."

— David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

"Part of the reason this deceptively simple story works is Wenders’ commitment to transform ordinary occurrences into extraordinary ones filled with grace and beauty. The other is Kôji Yakusho’s transcendent performance as Hirayama."

— Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News

"Without Yakusho, it would still be the German filmmaker’s strongest narrative feature in 30 years... With him, this small, unassuming tale turns into the kind of earthshaking character study that reminds us why we go to the movies in the first place."

— David Fear, Rolling Stone