tt1069238 Departures (2008)Director : Yôjirô Takita

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Genre : Drama, Music

Cast : : , Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi , Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ikuei Sasaki , Ryoko Hirosue as Mika Kobayashi , Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Tsuyako Yamashita , Kimiko Yo as Yuriko Kamimura , Takashi Sasano as Shokichi Hirata , Tetta Sugimoto as Yamashita , Tôru Minegishi as Yoshiki Kobayashi , Tatsuo Yamada as Togashi , Yukari Tachibana , Tarô Ishida as Sonezaki , Sanae Miyata as Naomi Togashi , Ryôsuke Ôtani as Tomeo's father , Mitsuyo Hoshino as Kazuko Kobayashi , Tatsuhito Okuda

Plot : A recently unemployed cellist removes a career projecting the deadened for the explanation that funerals.

Run Time : 130 min

Country : Japan

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Language : Japanese

Filming Locations : Sakata, Yamagata, Japan

Company : Amuse Soft Entertainment

Trivia : The Japanese designation “Okuribito” modus operandi “the sending [away/off] people” (as in: human beings who send) - except this expression is not customarily old inside Japanese.

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Plot Summary : Daigo Kobayashi is a loyal cellist inside an orchestra that has only been dissolved in addition to at present finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to switched over back up to his archaic place of birth along furthermore his mate to glimpse given that operate in addition to approach over. He ways out a confidential commercial entitled "Departures" ruminating it is an marketing given that a journey organization solitary to determine that the profession is really given that a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral expert who prepares deceased bodies given that burial in addition to way into the subsequently life. While his mate in addition to others despise the job, Daigo takes out a precise pride inside his operate in addition to begins to wonderful the knack of "Nokanshi," working because a soft gatekeeper between subsistence in addition to death, between the gone in addition to the group of the departed. The motion picture follows his profound in addition to occasionally amusing vacation along furthermore bereavement because he uncovers the wonder, fulfillment in addition to meaning of subsistence in addition to living.