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| Departures |
おくりびと |
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| Departures won the 2008 Grand Prix des Americas, the highest award at the Montreal World Film Festival, and is Japan’s official entry for the 2009 Academy Awards’ foreign language category. |
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| © 2008 Departures Film Partners |
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Returning to his hometown after his orchestra disbands, the cellist Daigo is in search of a new life, a new job and a new direction. To everyone’s horror, he finds himself working in a mortuary, surrounded by the deceased. Everyday, he prepares the departed for the afterlife with delicate ritualistic care. Daigo finds the balance he has been searching for all along, the discovery of life through death.
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Yojiro Takita |
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Yasuhiro Mase (exec), Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa Watai |
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| Screenplay |
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Kundo Koyama |
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| Cast |
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Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue |
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| Japanese w/English subtitles |
| 2008 | 35mm | 130 mins | Drama |
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Melbourne: Mon 1 Dec, 8:30pm
Sydney: Tue 9 Dec, 8:00pm |
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