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Departures (v.o.j.)

Departures

Date de Sortie: vendredi 12 juin 2009
Genre: Drame

Réalisateur: Yojiro Takita
Producteur: Toshiaki Nakasawa, Toshihisa Watai
Scénario: Kundo Koyama
Studio: KinoSmith
Durée: 130 min.

Résumé:

Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved, is suddenly left without a job. Daigo 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, only to discover 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 of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed.