SG Film: Perfect Days
Once a month you can enjoy the best movies on the screen of the auditorium. Perfect Days is a bittersweet drama by Wim Wenders about a cleaner of public toilets in Tokyo, who serenely and diligently completes his daily round.
Genre: Drama
Film Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Arisa Nakano, Yumi Asô, Tokio Emoto
Language: Japanese and English – Subtitles: English
Time: 19:30-21:35 hrs. Free entrance (no registration required). Entrance Cobbenhagen building: see below.
Daily routine
Shibuya, Tokyo. Hirayama, a solitary public toilet cleaner, is a reserved, almost taciturn creature of habit. With his days following a monotonous pattern, Hirayama wakes up at the crack of dawn, performs his usual morning ritual with quiet precision, and off he goes to work in his little blue van after buying a can of coffee from a nearby vending machine. After all, surprise is a rare commodity for him. However, light and shadow coexist. More of his past is gradually revealed through a series of unexpected encounters.
Zen
Wim Wenders’s zen meditation on beauty, fulfilment and simplicity is an achingly lovely and unexpectedly life-affirming picture. It all depends – and this is central to the film’s gently profound message – on your way of looking at things. Hirayama looks at the world with his eyes, but sees with his heart.
Awards
Koji Yakusho won the best actor award at Cannes. Nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
‘’ It’s not a perfect movie but it comes pretty close.’’
-Financial Times
“There’s something inexplicably Wenders-like about it; he’s a filmmaker who looks for joy in the corners, and finds it. His lead actor is the perfect partner here.’’
-TIME magazine
Movies on the big screen on campus
Once a month, you can enjoy the best movies on the big screen on campus:
- Tuesday, October 1 – The Banshees of Inisherin (2022 - Martin McDonagh)
- Wednesday, December 4 – The Holdovers (2023 - Alexander Payne)
- Wednesday, February 5 – Anatomy of a Fall (2023 - Justine Triet)
- Tuesday, March 12 – The Sound of Metal (2019 - Darius Marder)
- Wednesday, April 2 – Ema (2019 - Pablo Larraín)
- Tuesday, May 7 – Birdman (2014 - Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
More information
SG Film Nights are organized by Studium Generale.
Contact: Annelieke Koster (Studium Generale).
Entrance Cobbenhagen building
The Cobbenhagen building can be entered
- via the Koopmans building, and subsequently the glass corridor to the Cobbenhagen building, till 19:00 hrs.
The Koopmans building is closed after 19:00 hrs. - via the main entrance of the Cobbenhagen building at the side of the Hogeschoollaan (near the pond).
- for disabled and wheelchair users, access is possible via the Koopmans building, or via an alternative entrance from the Warande parking lot and a side entrance to the glass corridor.
For more information, see also Campus map and buildings, and for assistance, please call +31 (0)13 - 466 3000 (Security).
