Koji Yakusho-Hirayama won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. The 67-year-old Japanese actor plays a public toilet worker in Tokyo in Perfect days.
The role offers Wim Wenders a remarkable return to the Croisette. Wenders borrows like his Italian counterpart Nanni Moretti (Towards a radiant future, also in competition) the path of melancholy. The German director won the Palme d'Or for Paris Texas in 1984.