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Departures is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki. The film follows a young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician. He is subjected to prejudice from those around him, including from his wife, because of strong social taboos…
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Source # ENGLISH Death and life. Life and death. One leads to the other in a long or short cycle, depending on the case. The truth is that both inherently coexist. This is one of the many messages left by the film Departures (2008), or known in English as Violins in the Sky, or in Japanese (original title) Okuribito. Directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, it tells the story of a young Daigo Kobayash…More
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Okuribito or Departures, released in 2008 is a Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and written by Kundō Koyama. The casts of the film are Masahiro Motoki, Ryoki Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo and many more. The film won Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (2009), Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year (2009), Asian Film Award for Best Actor (2009) etc. Summary of the plot A failed…More
Review: *Departures* is a Japanese drama directed by Yōjirō Takita and is the second film that I am reviewing that features veteran actor, Tsutomu Yamazaki, this time in a supporting capacity to Masahiro Motoki, who plays the lead character, Daigo. Daigo plays a musician living his dream in Tokyo, playing the cello in a respectable orchestra, but the dream turns to ash when said orchestra is disbanded out of the blu…More
2008 was a banner year for great films. Exceptional, original films like Slumdog Millionaire and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button highlighted a year of great film. Lost in the shuffle (for me) was an outstanding Japanese film called Departures which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. If you are looking for an exceptional foreign language film, I would recommend Departures. Departures ta…More