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Departures
Okuribito
drama, music
2008
Japan
Jodziro Takita
130 min.
Masakhiro Motoki, Tsutomo Yamadzaki, Ryoko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo, Takashi Sasano, Thatt Sugimoto, Torah Mingisi, Tatsuo Yamada, Yukari Tatiban
The main character of the picture is the young cellist Daigo, who was left without work. Together with his wife, he moves from a metropolis to his native town in the province, where he was offered a job in a certain agency, as if a tourist one. However, it turns out that this is a funeral bureau, and Daigo has to wash the bodies of the dead, decorate them and prepare them to go to a better world. With great surprise, the hero understands that he copes with his new work very well.