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Departures (2008) (Japan)
Departures (おくりびと, Okuribito?) is a 2008 Japanese film by Yōjirō Takita. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars and has earned $61,010,217 in Japan as of April 12, 2009.
Japanese Title: Okuribito
Other Title: Good & Bye
Director: Yojiro Takita
Genre: Drama | Music
Runtime: 130 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo, Takashi Sasano
Subtitle: English
Plot: A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1069238/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departures_(film)
http://asianmediawiki.com/Departures
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Synopsis:
Daigo Kobayashi, who was a cellist in an orchestra which had just been dissolved, suddenly is thrown out onto the streets without a job and hope for life. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife. However, his life is revived when he starts working as an "encoffineer." He cleans up the body, places the dead into the coffin, and sends the dead to the next world in the best way possible… he is the gatekeeper between life and death. The job is despised by his wife and the people around him, but through the "Deaths" that he encounters, he finally starts to find what "Life" is all about.
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