Perfect Days: The Power of No Mind 

@@nikunjarya6292 Couldn't agree more!

Very interesting insight! I myself have yet to dive into a lot of Japanese cinema before the more modern age - would be a great project to steep in. I know that Wim Wenders credited Ozu as a major influence on this film. He even took the name Hirayama from Ozu's final work! In any case, a phenomenal movie and indeed I felt had a very positive outlook on life. A nice slice of solace and serenity in modern media

Many thanks to you as well

Well said! I definitely think there is a lot we could all learn from Hirayama's way of living. It's so easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of day to to day life that we readily forget what's right in front of us. Thanks for sharing

Much appreciated as always, Sam! It is indeed a very thought provoking film. I watched it many times as I was constructing the essay for this video and noticed different details and layers of depth in each viewing. Also, watching it in native Japanese with no subtitles provides a different experience in itself too! I think there's a degree of subtlety lost in translation (as always, heh) But yeah this movie really hit close to home for me. Felt like a lot of my own personal life philosophy and understanding of this world laid out in front of me. I have to agree with you, watching it was a special experience I think it will always hold a special place in my heart 🙂

Absolutely agreed with you! The perfect film for taking a beat from the hustle and bustle of life in general - something I think we could all strive to do more from time to time 🙂

Well put! As they say, great minds think alike 🙂

@@sarathjustin4735 Thank you! At this particularly difficult juncture with RU-vid, I really appreciate your kind words. Glad you got something meaningful from the video, cheers! 🙂

@@TimThoughts keep up the good work brother. I'm sure you'll get what you want in the journey. Keep doing what you love 🫂💎

@@joyenjoy6280 Many thanks, appreciate the kind words 🙏

@@sunilkumarssak Thank you as well friend 🙏

As a fellow infrequent commenter (beside my own channel of course), I thank you as well! Glad you enjoyed the video :)

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Thanks, appreciate it! I also really enjoyed Godzilla and it really had me thinking. Definitely a candidate for a future video! 🙂

We are all real ones on this blessed day 🙏 But for real though thank you, appreciate you ♥

Thank you too! My first super thanks, I will remember this forever!! 🥲

Thank you as well! I think you'll enjoy it, it's a wonderful film 🙂

Thank you! Your words warm my heart and are greatly appreciated! 🙂

Many thanks! 🙂

I very much so agree with you. It's a nuanced, layered film that really strikes at the heart of what it means to live well. Hirayama lives such a simple life, so removed from what the average person would consider success, happiness, or contentment - yet he lives with a concerted fullness. Thank you for your comment as well. I'm glad to have heard your perspective - it's clear you are someone who has thought much about the film and Hirayama's life, as well as your own. Many thanks, and cheers! 🙂

Thank you! 🙂

@@TimThoughts welcome

@@DoubleMannings This is a great question! I've thought a lot about it myself too. In my opinion, it's a sort of catharsis for Hirayama. One thing I feel we need to remember as viewers of the film (and his life), is that we are not known to him. We follow his life slowly and see snippets and vignettes of his interactions, and even this - a very candid and real moment for the character Hirayama - he is not playing anything up for the camera, or anyone else for that matter. He believes he is alone, on his way to work, as any other day. In an adjacent vein, a lot has happened in his otherwise "ordinary life" as of late. His long time coworker left unexpectedly, he had an extremely emotional encounter with his niece and estranged sister, he had to deal with thoughts and emotions of family and his father, and his somewhat understated romantic relationship met with unexpected turbulence from an ex-lover (who is now sick with cancer). The events of the movie actually represent a very trying time in Hirayama's life, and as such, he hasn't had much space to process or deal with so much happening in such a short span of time. He chooses to continue to live each and every day, same as the last. And so we finally arrive at the ending scene - all of these events have finally unfolded and concluded in their own ways, in varying degrees of closure. He finally has a moment of peace to unpack and make sense of everything that has happened - and naturally the reaction is cutting, and strong. True to character, Hirayama takes on these emotions and allows them to flow freely within him, expressing them as they come - letting tears and smiles change hands repeatedly, showing the catharsis of letting go of so many mixed emotions and events that have unwittingly become keystone events in his life. As an anecdote from the making of the movie, Wim Wenders' direction for Koji Yakusho in this scene was something along the lines of: "just think about the events of recent days in Hirayama's life - everything that has happened, and let the emotions and feelings of those memories flow through you". Of course I am paraphrasing, but the result is clearly spectacular. I hope my thoughts find you well, I found the ending scene to be particularly poignant and a moment of phenomenal acting from Yakusho.

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@@urvashijain2422 If you're in the US, it's currently streaming on Hulu! Outside the US, I'm not so sure...

your perception of having not enough, is also embracing the idea that the only personal fulfillment you can obtain is through being materialistic. Whereas this movie shows a different perspective to individuals for a life that is more out of the ordinary and simplistic.

Interesting take. I agree that WEF wants us to have nothing. Maybe agree is the wrong word, they say so themselves. But i believe this film is simply about the invisible people in society, and more specifically in a japanese society, which is more cold. But it shows that even in that situation you could find happiness. Very spiritual if you ask me. But very interesting take.

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@@1OldPacman Thank you for your comment. Another angle of looking at this film is through a dystopian prism (for example Huskley, WEF user manual), where people are genetically engineered to be, for example, public toilet cleaners, happy cleaners. I feel claustrophobic and sad watching this marketing film. All the best.

@@Gvozden-cf4ds to be honest, I don't you to convince me because i love this film haha. But i do agree with you in being paranoid about the dystopian future that seems to be a close reality (china during and after covid, north korea, the WEF saying you'll eat bugs, have nothing, and be happy. All these stuff), but i don't want it to tarnish my perspective of this specific film, because as i said i look at it from a different lens. But it sure seems like a horror film looking at it like an advertisement for the future.

Well said 🙂