Perfect Days: The German auteur discusses the origins of his new film and the influence of Japanese film and culture on his work
Perfect Days thus follows humble Hirayama as he scrubs the white walls of Fumihiko Maki’s ‘Squid Toilet’ in Ebisu East Park; partakes in a game of tic-tac-toe inside Tadao Ando’s circular restrooms, surrounded by cherry trees in Jingu-Dori Park; and labours within the jagged concrete walls of Wonderwall’s constructs in Ebisu Park, which reference primitive kawaya huts used in the early Jōmon period.
” As he reflects, Wenders seems to allude to the “paradise” he had once found in Ozu’s filmmaking, the old master’s minimalist approach and restrained storytelling embodied in Hirayama’s ascetic style of living and tolerance of others. “Just as I needed angels in order to show Berlin , I needed a caretaker for these toilets. And so we decided to call him Hirayama – the name of Chishū Ryū’s character in Tokyo Story.
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