Departures
DVD - 2009
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Port Washington, N.Y.] :
E1 Entertainment
[2009]
- Language
- Japanese
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- Item Description
- Title and credits transliterated from the Japanese.
Videodisc release of the 2008 motion picture.
Special features: interview with director Yôjirô Takita. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Playing Time
- 02:11:00
- Format
- Region 1 ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Takeshi Hamada ; editor, Akimasa Kawashima ; music, Joe Hisaishi.
- ISBN
- 9781417232918
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