Departures., a Regent/Here Media release of a Departures Film Partners presentation ; producers, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa Watai ; screenplay by Kundo Koyama ; directed by Yojiro Takita, Widescreen
Type
Label
Departures., a Regent/Here Media release of a Departures Film Partners presentation ; producers, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa Watai ; screenplay by Kundo Koyama ; directed by Yojiro Takita, Widescreen
Language
jpn
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements
Main title
Departures.
Oclc number
454647968
Responsibility statement
a Regent/Here Media release of a Departures Film Partners presentation ; producers, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa Watai ; screenplay by Kundo Koyama ; directed by Yojiro Takita
Runtime
131
Summary
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer, ' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art, acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Okuribito
resource.version
Widescreen
Classification
Contributor
- Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-
- Sasano, T., Takashi
- Hisaishi, Jō, 1950-
- Yo, Kimiko, 1956-
- Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936-
- Motoki, Masahiro, 1965-
- Nakazawa, Toshiaki
- Koyama, Kundo
- Takita, Yōjirō, 1955-
- Sugimoto, Tetta
- Departures Film Partners
- Regent (Firm)
- E1 Entertainment (Firm)
- Watai, Toshihisa
- Hirosue, Ryōko, 1980-
- Here Media (Firm)
Subject
Content
Is Based On
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor16
- Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-
- Sasano, T., Takashi
- Hisaishi, Jō, 1950-
- Yo, Kimiko, 1956-
- Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936-
- Motoki, Masahiro, 1965-
- Nakazawa, Toshiaki
- Koyama, Kundo
- Takita, Yōjirō, 1955-
- Sugimoto, Tetta
- Departures Film Partners
- Regent (Firm)
- E1 Entertainment (Firm)
- Watai, Toshihisa
- Hirosue, Ryōko, 1980-
- Here Media (Firm)
- Genre3
- Subject8
- Content1
- Is Based On1
- Mapped to1