Wim Wenders Presents Yakusho Koji With Far East Film Festival’s Golden Mulberry, Describes Shooting ‘Perfect Days’ With the Discipline of a Documentary

Wim Wenders presented Yakusho Koji with the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Far East Film Festival. Wenders described how their collaboration on "Perfect Days" abandoned fiction filmmaking conventions, using documentary discipline to tell a scripted story. Yakusho's performance in the film earned him the best actor prize at Cannes. The Golden Mulberry is the highest honor awarded by the Far East Film Festival, which focuses on popular Asian cinema.