Perfect Days (2023)
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Form & technique
- The film's overall pacing and cinematography
- Hirayama's use of cassette tapes and film camera
- The diegetic soundtrack of 60s/70s rock music
- The film's overall pacing and narrative structure
Tropes
- Hirayama's daily cleaning ritual
- The architecturally designed public toilets → Cinematic Psychogeography
- Hirayama's monochrome dream sequences
- Kōji Yakusho's performance as Hirayama
- The encounter with the bar owner's ex-husband
- Hirayama's structured daily routine
- Hirayama's meticulous cleaning of public toilets
- Hirayama's recurring black-and-white dream sequences of rustling leaves and light
- Hirayama's cassette tape collection (Lou Reed, Patti Smith, etc.)
- The architecturally unique public toilets of the "Tokyo Toilet Project"
- Hirayama's relationship with his niece, Niko
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