PERFECT DAYS interview by OLIVIER ZAHM and ALEPH MOLINARI portraits by CHIKASHI SUZUKI Wim Wenders’s fascination with Japan is beautifully captured in his work. Already in 1985, his documentary Tokyo-Ga paid tribute to the legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, while Notebook on Cities and Clothes captured in 1989 the philosophy and work of designer Yohji Yamamoto. His latest film, Perfect Days, features the iconic actor Kōji Yakusho as an elderly man cleaning toilets in Tokyo — a masterpiece of layered emotions, gradually seeping into a seemingly simple narrative, portraying Tokyo as a psychological landscape of intense inner turmoil. PURPLE — In your first movies, the United States was the cinematic destination. Has Japan replaced America as your cinematic landscape — a cinematic alterity, an interior adventure? WIM WENDERS — [Laughs] That’s a big question in my life, so I need a bit of time to cover that huge…