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Comment by nathell | Hacker News Reader

For a glimpse into public toilets in Japan, do yourself a favour and watch ‘Perfect Days’.

Great film with great acting and great music. If you feel you lost the connection to your own life, it might be worth a watch.

And right here (U.S.): https://youtu.be/aRwug4G8JjI

Thanks! I was scrolling for this helpful comment with the link!

Correct order is:

1. Watch Perfect Days 2. Go to Japan 3. Do the The Tokyo Toilet [1] _tour_

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tokyo_Toilet

My favorite movie of all time. First thing I thought of when I saw this.

Perfect Days is in my top 10 movies of all times - a must watch for everyone.

ps - I learned the beautiful word / concept komorebi from the film: "dappled, shimmering light and shadow created when sunlight filters through the leaves of trees"

Some of the most beautiful English-language writing I've read is describing the interplay of light and shadow under a canopy. This is an area where I think having a single word description is a linguistic loss.

I dunno, it could be evocative like something like "petrichor" is in English.

Petrichor isn't very evocative though? It sounds more like it should be a description of a scab or something than a smell, and I guess maybe it rains too much where I live but the smell of rain isn't something I have a strong feeling about, it's just a warning to get inside.

I find having the word "komorebi" to be a conceptual gain. I can more-readily notice this beautiful occurrence because I have this easy-to-grasp concept in my mind.

ps - the existence of this word does not prevent authors from using more words to describe the situation ;)

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