Nominated for the 2024 Best International Film Academy Award, Perfect Days is a poignant character study and emotionally charged journey into the soul of Tokyo. Radiating with charm, this unique mix of fiction and ordinary life finds an unusual, poetic angle to guide us—the architectural marvels of some of Tokyo’s public toilets. (These are not just any toilets–they are the ones designed to welcome the world to Japan for the 2020 Olympics). Presented in partnership with the Algonquin Theatre on Monday, October 21st, Perfect Days is generously sponsored by Steve and Noreen Mitchell.
Kôji Yakusho, the winner of the best actor award for this role at the Cannes Film Festival, plays Hirayama, a cleaner of these toilets. He lives alone in a small house full of plants, his days going by according to quiet rhythms that never seem to change. Hirayama speaks very little and has a great passion for music, books, and the trees he loves to photograph. He drives to work in his minivan, fully equipped with his cleaning gear, while The Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, or Lou Reed ring in ageless, husky hums from a tape player. His structured routine is slowly interrupted by unexpected encounters that force him to reconnect with his past. The film is in Japanese and English but with very little dialogue.
Tickets are available online at reelalternativeshuntsville.ca or algonquintheatre.ca, at the door or by calling the Algonquin Theatre box office at 705-789-4975. Reel Alternatives Huntsville gratefully acknowledges their partnership with Film Circuit, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival, and its sponsors and supporters.
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