Wim Wenders · 2023 · overland

Wim Wenders's 2023 film, with Koji Yakusho as Hirayama, a man who cleans Tokyo's public toilets. The film follows the quiet, repeating circuit of his days, the cassette tapes and paperbacks, the sunlight through the trees he photographs, finding in an unwavering routine a kind of grace and asking how full a small, still life can be.

1. 1
   His Apartment

   Hirayama wakes before dawn in his small flat near the Sky Tree, waters his seedlings, and drives out into the waking city.

2. 2
   The Shibuya Toilets

   He cleans the strange, beautiful public toilets of Shibuya with a craftsman's quiet devotion.

3. 3
   A Park

   At lunch he sits beneath the trees and photographs komorebi, the scattering of sunlight through leaves.

4. 4
   The Bathhouse

   An old public bathhouse at the close of the working day.

5. 5
   The Bar

   A familiar drink at a familiar counter, and the same small, perfect day beginning again.