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Wim Wenders' Perfect Days gets OTT release date

The film was nominated for The Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards

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Perfect Days, the Oscar-nominated film by renowned writer-director Wim Wenders, will stream exclusively on MUBI in India from April 12.

The film follows Hirayama, a content toilet cleaner in Tokyo, who enjoys a simple life and liking for music and books. However, a series of events unfold a different part of his life and past. The film stars Koji Yakusho, Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto, Yumi Aso, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura, Aoi Yamada, and Min Tanaka, among others.

The film was nominated for The Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards where it lost out to Zone of Interest. It is to be noted that it was the first time Japan picked a film made by a non-Japanese filmmaker for an Oscars. Yakusho won the best actor award at the 2023 Cannes film festival for his role in the film.

Wenders, a German filmmaker and writer, is known for films such as Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire,The American Friend" and Faraway, So Close!

Backed by Koji Yanai, Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki, Perfect Days is also co-written by Takasaki.

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