Wim Wenders’ “Good Days,” which gained the very best actor award for Koji Yakusho on the Cannes Movie Pageant, has bought out worldwide. The Match Manufacturing unit is dealing with worldwide gross sales.

As beforehand introduced, North American rights went to Neon and France went to Haut et Court docket.

Additional gross sales included U.Ok./Eire/Latin America/Turkey (MUBI), Australia/New Zealand (Madman), Benelux (Paradiso), China (DDDream), Italy (Fortunate Crimson), Spain (A Contracorriente), Switzerland (DCM), Baltics (A-One Baltics), Bulgaria (Artwork Fest), CIS (A-One), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Aerofilms), Former Yugoslavia (MCF), Greece (Feelgood Leisure), Hong Kong (Edko Movies), Hungary (Cirko), Israel (Lev Cinemas), Poland (Gutek), Portugal (Alambique), Romania (Unhealthy Unicorn), Scandinavia (Future Movie) and Taiwan (Applause).

The movie (learn our interview with Wim Wenders right here) is a deeply transferring and poetic reflection on discovering magnificence within the on a regular basis world round us. It follows Hirayama, who appears totally content material together with his easy life as a cleaner of bathrooms in Tokyo. Outdoors of his very structured on a regular basis routine he enjoys his ardour for music and for books. And he loves bushes and takes images of them. A sequence of surprising encounters regularly reveal extra of his previous.

Koji Yakusho leads the solid. In 2005, he co-starred in “Memoirs of a Geisha,” which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Within the following 12 months, he co-starred in “Babel,” a movie that was honored by the Cannes Movie Pageant and earned Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

Alongside together with his worldwide success, Yakusho has starred in a wide selection of movies in Japan, the place his various performing vary has garnered him excessive reward, together with “The Eel” (1997) and “Eureka” (2001). Extra not too long ago, he was awarded finest main actor on the Chicago Intl. Movie Pageant for his efficiency in “Underneath the Open Sky” (2020).

Different solid members embrace Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada and Yumi Aso. The script is by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. The director of pictures is Franz Lustig.

The movie is produced by Koji Yanai, Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. The chief producer is Koji Yakusho. The co-producers are Reiko Kunieda, Keiko Tominaga, Kota Yabana and Yasushi Okuwa.