PERFECT DAYS—Film Screening

Join us for an immersive cinematic experience as we present a screening of PERFECT DAYS at the esteemed Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree, California on March 2, 2025. Presented in Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound. Rated PG for some beer drinking.

Event Description

This screening is part of the series of Sunday afternoon film screenings by the Cultural Center’s Hi-Desert Film Institute at the Blak Box Theater in Joshua Tree, CA. Doors (and bar) open at 3:30pm with a brief film discussion at 3:45pm, which is followed by the screening at 4pm.  This film is rated PG.

Summary: How to have ‘Perfect Days’ in a flawed world — this film embraces beauty all around. “A banal daily routine reveals hidden depths in the Tokyo-set gem “Perfect Days,” from one of cinema’s great poets of patience and connection, Wim Wenders. A beautifully observed paean to caretaking — both physical and philosophical — the movie is led, with sublime joy, by the great Japanese actor Koji Yakusho (“Shall We Dance?”), whose character, Hirayama, is a solitary man at uncommon peace with his chosen existence. In the pantheon of films about people and their jobs, “Perfect Days” suggests a riff on the iconic “Superman” tagline: You’ll believe a man can enjoy cleaning public toilets.” – LA Times  The soundtrack is replete with nostalgic music including “The House of the Rising Sun” The Animals, “Pale Blue Eyes” The Velvet Underground, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding, “Redondo Beach” Patti Smith, “(Walkin’ Thru The) Sleepy City” The Rolling Stones, “Perfect Day” Lou Reed, “Aoi Sakana” Sachiko Kanenobu, “Sunny Afternoon” The Kinks, “The House of the Rising Sun” (Japanese version) Sayuri Ishikawa, “Brown Eyed Girl” Van Morrison, “Feeling Good” Nina Simone, and “Perfect Day” (Komorebi Version) Patrick Watson

Critical Accliam:  “It is not a young man’s movie; it has the wisdom and poetic perceptions of an artist knowingly nearing the end of his life and career” – Roger Ebert. Perfect Days premiered on 23 May 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d’Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Awardfor Kōji Yakusho. It was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the first film directed by a non-Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry.