It is rare that a movie so delicately and intricately made just doesn’t say anything about itself, like the end card explains it plainly to us, Perfect Days is a movie about fleeting moments, little touches of control and contact that we feel with the world and it’s unbounding beauty whether it comes from human connections or nature.

Now I could talk about a lot of the things I have in mind, the way it uses lighting as a whole which reminded me of Kurosawa’s works, the sound design that was borderline ASMR, the acting from the lead actor, the music and it’s pop-flavoured soundtrack but I don’t want to. I would rather tell you that all of those decisions and techniques and production design things ultimately culminate in a great, beautiful movie that speaks the souls of its characters by simply letting them be themselves.

8.5/10 thoroughly inconclusive about it’s nature but as a passing moment, it does very well to make us acknowledge it’s presence and it’s effect. Lovely to behold