Perfect Days Review (2023) — 88% Celluloid Score
Directed by Wim Wenders · 2023 ·
Perfect Days (2023) earns a 88% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.
Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.
Five-source breakdown
🏆 1 nomination
Neon Where to watch in the United States
Not yet streaming in the United States — check local listings.
Why this score?
- Strong critic approval (96% positive).
- Audiences widely enjoyed it (92%).
- Metascore signals universal acclaim (91/100).
- Letterboxd diarists rate it highly (4.2/5).
- Celluloid Score 88% averages all five public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.
Best for
- Viewers who want a well-regarded drama pick
Not ideal for
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Is Perfect Days worth watching?
Yes — Perfect Days earns a 88% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.
Critics Consensus
A serene, deeply humane miniature from Wim Wenders — anchored by Kōji Yakusho's Cannes-winning performance, it finds transcendence in the smallest rituals of a single life.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.
What is Perfect Days about?
A Tokyo toilet cleaner lives a life of monastic routine — tending plants, listening to cassettes, photographing the play of light through trees — until small disruptions reveal the quiet depths beneath his contentment, in Wim Wenders's luminous ode to finding grace in the ordinary.
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