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Title Departures / a Regent/Here Media release of a Departures Film Partners presentation ; producers, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa Watai ; screenplay by Kundo Koyama ; directed by Yojiro Takita.

Publication Info. Port Washington, NY : E1 Entertainment, 2009.
2008.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  DVD FOREIGN DEPARTURES    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD FOREIGN DEPARTURES    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Videos  DVD DEPARTURES    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult DVDs  DVD DEP    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FOR DVD DEP    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual  DVD DEPARTURES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult FOREIGN DVD  DVD FOREIGN-JA-D    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN AD DVD DEPARTURES    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD FF DEP    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Foreign Language  DVD DEPARTURES    Check Shelf

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.
Migration, Internal -- Japan -- Drama.
Advertising, Classified -- Japan -- Drama.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Japan -- Drama.
Married people -- Japan -- Drama.
Foreign films -- Japan.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Genre/Form Musical films.
Feature films.
Added Author Nakazawa, Toshiaki.
Watai, Toshihisa.
Koyama, Kundō, 1964-
Takita, Yōjirō, 1955-
Motoki, Masahiro, 1965-
Hirosue, Ryōko, 1980-
Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936-
Yo, Kimiko, 1956-
Sugimoto, Tetta.
Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-
Sasano, T. (Takashi)
Hisaishi, Jō, 1950-
Regent (Firm)
Here Media (Firm)
Departures Film Partners.
E1 Entertainment (Firm)
Added Title Okuribito
ISBN 1417232919
9781417232918
Standard No. 741952675792
Music No. E1E-DV-6757 E1 Entertainment
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