Description |
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
System Details |
DVD, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
Note |
Title and credits transliterated from the Japanese. |
Cast |
Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Tetta Sugimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takashi Sasano. |
Credits |
Director of photography, Takeshi Hamada ; editor, Akimasa Kawashima ; music by, Joe Hisaishi. |
Note |
DVD release of the 2008 motion picture. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic material. |
Summary |
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art, acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. |
Note |
Special feature: Interview with director Yôjirô Takita. |
Language |
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
Local Note |
WNPLFFDVD |
Subject |
Cellists -- Japan -- Drama.
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Migration, Internal -- Japan -- Drama.
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Advertising, Classified -- Japan -- Drama.
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Undertakers and undertaking -- Japan -- Drama.
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Married people -- Japan -- Drama.
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Foreign films -- Japan.
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Motion pictures, Japanese.
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Genre/Form |
Musical films.
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Feature films.
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Added Author |
Nakazawa, Toshiaki.
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Watai, Toshihisa.
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Koyama, Kundō, 1964-
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Takita, Yōjirō, 1955-
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Motoki, Masahiro, 1965-
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Hirosue, Ryōko, 1980-
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Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936-
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Yo, Kimiko, 1956-
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Sugimoto, Tetta.
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Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-
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Sasano, T. (Takashi)
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Hisaishi, Jō, 1950-
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Regent (Firm)
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Here Media (Firm)
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Departures Film Partners.
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E1 Entertainment (Firm)
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Added Title |
Okuribito |
ISBN |
1417232919 |
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9781417232918 |
Standard No. |
741952675792 |
Music No. |
E1E-DV-6757 E1 Entertainment |
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