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DEPARTURES (ORIGINAL TITLE: OKUTIBITO)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, ITALY
Release date : Apr 09, 2010
 
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Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 131 minutes

Log Line

An emotionally moving drama about a young man who finds life through the death that he encounters.

Year of production : 2008

Director(s) : Yojiro TAKITA
Writer(s) : Kundo KOYAMA
Cast : Masahiro MOTOKI, Ryoko HIROSUE, Kimiko YO, Tsutomu YAMAZAKI

Producer(s) : Yasuhiro MASE

Synopsis

Departures follows a young man, who has just started working as a “Nokanshi” (Encoffineer). Cleaning up the body, placing the dead into the coffin, and sending the dead to the next world… he is the gatekeeper between life and death.
The young man is Daigo Kobayashi, who was a cellist in an orchestra which had just been dissolved. Suddenly thrown out onto the streets without a job and no hope for life, Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown, with his wife. However, his life is revived by the job of “encoffineer”. The job is despised by his wife and the people around him, but through the “Deaths” that he encounters, he starts to finally find what “Life” is all about.
Until our own “departure” comes, we must all eventually “send off” those we love. The universal theme evokes the love between married couples, of parents for children, of children for parents, and the ties that bind relatives, friends, and co-workers, in a film that will raise powerful emotions of both laughter and tears.

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

AUSTRALIA MADMAN ENTERTAI
BELGIUM Nov 04, 2009 IMAGINE FILM DI
COLOMBIA CINE COLOMBIA S
DENMARK Nov 06, 2009 MIRACLE FILM DI
FRANCE Jun 03, 2009 METROPOLITAN FI
GERMANY Nov 26, 2009 KOOL FILMDISTRI
GREECE Mar 12, 2009 VIDEORAMA FILMS
HONG KONG EMPEROR MOTION
ISRAEL LEV CINEMAS LTD
ITALY UDINE FAR EAST
ITALY Apr 09, 2010 TUCKER FILM (UD
JAPAN SHOCHIKU CO., L
KOREA (Sou CONTENTS PANDA
NETHERLAND SEPTEMBER FILM
NORWAY ACTIONFILM
POLAND VIVARTO
RUSSIA RUSSIAN REPORT
SPAIN Jul 03, 2009 GOLEM DISTRIBUC
SWEDEN GÖTEBORG FILM F
SWEDEN STUDIO S ENTERT
SWITZERLAN Jun 03, 2009 IMPULS PICTURES
UNITED KIN CHANNEL FOUR TE
USA REQUIRED VIEWIN

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