Departures [2008 film]
by Yôjirô Takita (Director)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Departures [2008 film]
- Original title
- おくりびと; Okuribito
- Original publication date
- 2008
- Related movies
- Departures (2008 | IMDb)
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- 2008 film directed by Yôjirô Takita
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- English, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
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