Since 1979, Kōji Yakusho has played stressed accountants (Shall We Dance?), avenging samurai (13 Assassins), and convicted killers (The Third Murder). Now, in Wim Wenders’ Tokyo-set film Perfect Days, ...

German auteur Wim Wenders is no stranger to Japan. As far back as 1985, he made Tokyo-Ga, a documentary about filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, before going on to make Notebooks on Cities and Clothes (1989) ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. If you thought Kenny (2006) would be the only film you’d ever see about a toilet cleaner, in Perfect Days Wim Wenders shows us there ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. It’s a normal weekday for Hirayama (Koji ...