In its 96-minute golden-brown haze, Taste of Cherry is an exploration of primal and socio-ethical responses to suicide – from fear, bewilderment, and disdain, to empathy and peace. For a film fuelled by its protagonist’s desire to die, it is remarkably quiet and almost meditative.

Tic-tac-toe. Noughts and crosses. Xs and Os.

These are the names different people use to describe the same pencil-and-paper game.

A lot, yet very little happens in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, an affecting portrait of a public toilet janitor in Tokyo. Hirayama’s daily routine is almost perfectly clockwork: he wakes up to the sound of a neighbour sweeping, suits up in his “The Tokyo Toilet” uniform, and as he steps out of his door…he looks to the sky and heaves a happy sigh, regardless of how he is actually feeling.