Celeb Gist
“Next time is next time! Now is now!”
That’s the mantra that serves as an unofficial motto in “Perfect Days,” the soul-restoring new film from German director Wim Wenders and the latest addition to the small but potent genre of Zen cinema. The movie follows a contemplative middle-aged man named Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) as he goes about his job cleaning public toilets in the upscale Shibuya district of Tokyo. (Designed by an international cadre of architects and designers, the toilets themselves double as art installations: plumbing as whimsy.