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Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.

Directed by Wim Wenders from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany the film premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for K?ji Yakusho. It was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the first film not directed by a Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry.

The soundtrack includes songs by Lou Reed, Otis Redding and The Animals. Director Wim Wenders said of the the main protagonist, Hirayama 'He chooses in the morning exactly what he's going to listen to that day. And it's not random describing Lou Reed as "a mighty voice in the film."

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