A Monk Without a Monastery

The paradigm shift of a single shot in Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days

In the last shot of Perfect Days, this year’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece by Wim Wenders, a middle-aged Tokyoite named Hirayama drives through his city under a honey-colored sunrise. By this point in the film, we know it’s a habit for him to play a cassette in his ancient van’s tape deck ...
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A Monk Without a Monastery