Perfect Days review: a little too neat

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Wim Wenders’ new feature follows the life of a toilet cleaner in Tokyo as he goes about his day in this sweet slice-of-life drama, which makes its US premiere at the New York Film Festival.

In Perfect Days, Hirayama is a bathroom cleaner. He starts his day early, gets a coffee from the vending machine, pops a classic rock tape into the stereo, and drives his van to various public restrooms, where he gets to work. He scrubs and tidies the sink meticulously. The various parts of a bidet are wiped. He uses a small mirror to check the underside of a toilet to make sure it’s sparkling in places no one will ever see. I don’t love work, but I love stories about work.

Each needle drop was more painful than the last. Like most stories about daily habits, things go off the rails once the routine is disturbed. A horny co-worker — Hirayama’s foil, a zoomer who takes no pride in work — whines that he doesn’t understand why Hirayama works so hard at such a meaningless job. The sudden intrusion of Hirayama’s niece, who’s run away from home, adds a slight wrinkle to his day, too. Her fascination with cleaning goes as far as fodder for her social media.

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