Interviews With "Perfect Days" Director/Co-Writer Wim Wenders & Star Kōji Yakusho

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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"Perfect Days" had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the festival's Best Actor prize for Japanese star Kōji Yakusho. It would go on to be selected by Japan as their entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards and would eventually receive the Oscar nomination. As the film expanded to more theaters, Academy Award-nominated director and co-writer Wim Wenders and Yakusho sat with us to discuss their experiences working on the movie. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from NEON and is up for your consideration for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and these are Brandon Hodges' interviews with the director and co-writer for the Academy Award nominated Perfect Days, Vim Vendors, and the film star, Can Best Actor winner Koji Yakusha. So thank you so much for joining us today.
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