Perfect Days - 2023 - 7/10

Hirayama works for Tokyo Toilets and cleans public restrooms in parks.
His life is extraordinarily structured. Dawn, drive to work, park lunch, bathhouse, supper.
He buys (and reads) books from a small shop, also visits a small bar occasionally.
By contrast, his young colleague’s life is a mess: short of money, a girlfriend he cannot afford.
Hirayama’s is an ordinary life, gentle, not boastful.
For many, he is invisible, which is typical of how most view retail or service workers.
He takes pleasures in small things: saving plants, listening to music, photography, observing.
A backstory of a troubled upbringing is implied in the merest of exchanges.
Wim Wenders film.