Wim Wenders Presents Yakusho Koji With Far East Film Festival’s Golden Mulberry, Describes Shooting ‘Perfect Days’ With the Discipline of a Documentary

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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Wim Wenders traveled to Udine to personally present Yakusho Koji with the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Far East Film Festival on Saturday, using the occasion to describe how their collaboration on “Perfect Days” quietly abandoned the conventions of fiction filmmaking.

Wenders, who cast Yakusho as the taciturn Tokyo toilet cleaner Hirayama in the 2023 Cannes prize-winner, told the assembled audience he would not have made the journey for anyone else. He then traced a turning point that came on the third day of shooting.

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