EXCLUSIVE: Perfect Days , the comeback feature from legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders , has become boutique operator Curzon Cinemas ‘s longest-running film after passing 30 continuous weeks this past Friday. Perfect Days has played at Curzon Bloomsbury in London for 206 continuous days. The film passes Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car , which played for 26 continuous weeks, to become the operator’s longest-running title under modern tracking.
Perfect Days is currently the 7th highest-grossing film at Curzon Bloomsbury of all time. Wenders’s quietly radical, Tokyo-set drama, stars Japanese actor Koji Yakusho as a man with a love of trees and literature who mysteriously opts for a simple life by working as a toilet cleaner. The film debuted in Competition at Cannes in 2023 where Yakusho won Best Actor.
All rights on the film for the UK, LATAM, India, and Turkey were acquired by Mubi from The Match Factory at Cannes 2023. The pic recorded some of Wenders’s strongest opening box office figures across territories and has continued to play well with audiences. The film’s widest UK release was 135 screens.
UK box office currently sits at £1,386,958, Wenders’ biggest-ever film in the UK. The pic has also played a consecutive 30 weeks at Bristol Watershed, another house record. The last longest-running film at Watershed was Mark Jenkin’s Bait , which showed for 18 weeks.
Perfect Days is now also Wenders’s biggest film in Mexico after 25 weeks in cinemas. Mubi o.