What to Watch‘The Promised Land’ ‘Feud: Capote vs.... 7. The movie — a poignant character study of a public-toilet cleaner with a mysterious past who lives a spartan existence and works with the care of a master craftsman — actually had its roots in a bit of propaganda.... In Tokyo — and in the designer toilets in particular — he believed he saw the embodiment of purer impulses like cleanliness and community cooperation. Sign up for the Watching newsletter, for Times subscribers only....