Whether it’s raining or the sky is full of cloudless sunshine, the main character in legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders' Perfect Days is consistently happy. A public toilet cleaner by the name of Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) seemingly finds joy in what could easily be described as the simplest of things: picking up discounted novellas at the local bookstore, partaking in his hobby of shooting trees with his old Olympus camera, and adopting little saplings he finds on the ground when he goes on his lunch break. Oh, and he also has a collection of rock-themed cassette tapes that he holds more dear and close than money itself.
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