PERFECT DAYS (2023) WIM WENDERS

Getting up in the morning: See how easy it is with futons?

Tokyo Toilet!  What a band name!: I can never think this stuff up!

House of the Rising Sun:  3/4!

Saddle up!

The guy’s a photog without a camera!:  Wait! He’s got a Clamshell Olympus !

What’s all this on the mirror?: Dendrochronology!

{lost child}

Back to the trees at the shrine:   I hope that’s  maryjane! 

What’s with the paper bag?: Transplantation toolkit! 

Venice: The Tokyo of the Italic Peninsula!

Onsen!: Sumo!: Baseball!

Skytree!:  He’s not living in fucking Roppongi, is he?: Phew, he’s further away than I thought!

{In our dreams we hold a child’s hand}

Morning! The Crows of Tokyo!

Shadows on the wall!

Patti Smith: The Blonde Girl (10 out of 10) gets it!  

No love life if you are broke, is that it?:  Shimokita! 

Walking Through the Sleepy City! 

Tic Tac Toe: GTO  solver!

More Redondo Beach, those inscrutable Orientals and their suicide fetishes: Cherry Blossoms are next! 

On Sundays we get to sleep late!: Laundromat! Silver Halides! 

Mama; House of the Rising Sun: 1/1!

Niko, Brown Eyed Girl: “Is that tree your friend?”:   When Nakano Arisa, the actress who plays Niko, delivers this line, it lands like a jolt of lightning. These  are moments we live for when we go to the movies. 

Is that her husband or her chauffeur?

{Dreams of flowing water.  Dreams of trees.}

Drinking, smoking, playing tag: Do shadows get darker when they overlap?

Really cool opening scene with a “NEON” sign, but it’s not part of the movie. 

“How the hell does this work?” The sound! The ambient sound is the star of the picture. Second billing goes to the music. The cast does a wonderful job  listening to it. 

I wish I had a coffee vending machine in the alley by my door. 

The greatest movie ever made. The car chases need work, but the sight gags are perfect. Nothing happens.  Mandatory viewing from the guy who gave us Paris, Texas. Check it out!