Wim Wenders traveled to Udine to personally present Yakusho Koji with the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Far East Film Festival on Saturday, using the occasion to describe how their collaboration on “Perfect Days” quietly abandoned the conventions of fiction filmmaking. Wenders, who cast Yakusho as the taciturn Tokyo toilet cleaner Hirayama in the 2023 Cannes prize-winner, told the assembled audience he would not have made the journey for anyone else. He then traced a turning point that came on the third day of shooting. “He had transcended the part,” Wenders said, explaining that what Yakusho showed him in early rehearsals had already exceeded what the script envisioned. He asked the actor whether they could proceed directly to camera without rehearsing – unconventional on a fiction film – and Yakusho agreed. Popular on Variety From that point, Wenders said, he found himself applying documentary discipline to a scripted story.…