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Departures

ORIGINAL TITLE

Okuribito (Departures)

YEAR

2008

RUNNING TIME

131 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Yojiro Takita

SCREENWRITER

Koyama Kundo

COMPOSER

Joe Hisaishi

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Takeshi Hamada

CAST

Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo, Takashi Sasano, Tôru Minegishi, Tetta Sugimoto, Yukiko Yachibana, Tatsuo Yamada

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Amuse Soft Entertainment

OFFICIAL WEB

http://www.golem.es/despedidas

AWARDS

2008: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture

GENRE

Drama | Black comedy

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job and no hope for a career, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as a nokanshi, an "encoffiner", an undertaker, the man who ceremoniously washes and dresses the dead bodies and places them in coffins, sending them onto the next world. He is a bureaucrat, a gatekeeper between life and death. Daigo's work is despised by his wife and all the people around him, but it is through the death that he encounters daily that Daigo finally begins to understand what life is about. Until our own "departure" arrives, we must undertake to "send off" those we have loved. This holds true for the love between married couples, parents and children, and the ties that bind relatives, friends and colleagues.

PRO REVIEWS

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"Tonally eccentric, lushly scored meller 'Departures.' Fascinating glimpses into a unique profession trump the pic's emotional manipulation and substantial length" (Eddie Cockrell: Variety)
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