‘Perfect Days’ Review: Hanging On

Pay focus to the darkness in “Perfect Days.” Pay focus additionally to the trees, to the means Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) takes a look at them. They’re as a lot a personality in the tale as he is.

Hirayama cleans Tokyo’s public toilets for a living, climbing prior to dawn to carefully sprinkle the plants he expands in his home and after that repel to start his change. On the method to function, he chooses a cassette tape– Van Morrison, the Velvet Underground, Nina Simone– and pays attention while driving down the freeway. Tokyo’s Skytree skyscraper impends distant.

Hirayama plainly acquires satisfaction from doing his job well, yet there’s even more to his life than labor, and even more to this motion picture than a simple party of hands-on labor. He maintains to an easy regimen, the kind so thoroughly built you begin to ask yourself if it’s a barrier versus disorder. He departures his house and takes a breath deeply, when, …