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Departures Cover Image DVD DVD

Departures

Nakazawa, Toshiaki. (Added Author). Watai, Toshihisa. (Added Author). Koyama, Kundo. (Added Author). Takita, Yōjirō, 1955- (Added Author). Motoki, Masahiro, 1965- (Added Author). Hirosue, Ryōko, 1980- (Added Author). Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936- (Added Author). Yo, Kimiko. (Added Author). Sugimoto, Tetta. (Added Author). Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935- (Added Author). Sasano, T. (Takashi) (Added Author). Hisaishi, Jō, 1950- (Added Author). Regent (Firm) (Added Author). Here Media (Firm) (Added Author). Departures Film Partners. (Added Author). E1 Entertainment (Firm) (Added Author). Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Tetta Sugimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takashi Sasano. (Cast).

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 1417232919
  • ISBN: 9781417232918
  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videodisc
    1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [United States] : E1 Entertainment, [2009]

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Title and credits transliterated from the Japanese.
DVD release of the 2008 motion picture.
Special features: interview with director Yôjirô Takita.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Takeshi Hamada ; editor, Akimasa Kawashima ; music, Joe Hisaishi.
Participant or Performer Note: Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Tetta Sugimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takashi Sasano.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements.
System Details Note:
DVD ; Region 1 ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Language Note:
In Japanese, with English subtitles.

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Genre: Musical films.
Feature films.

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