Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Departures [videorecording] / a Regent/Here Media release of a Departures Film Partners presentation ; producers, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa Watai ; screenplay by Kundo Koyama ; directed by Yojiro Takita.
Call Number:
DVD JAPANESE D
Publisher, Date:
[United States] : E1 Entertainment, [2010]
Description:
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements.
Subjects:
Violoncellists -- Japan -- Drama.
Migration, Internal -- Japan -- Drama.
Advertising, Classified -- Japan -- Drama.
Undertakers and undertaking -- Japan -- Drama.
Married people -- Japan -- Drama.
Drama DVDs.
Japanese language DVDs.
World DVDs.
Genre:
Musical films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Other Author:
Nakazawa, Toshiaki.
Watai, Toshihisa.
Koyama, Kundo.
Takita, Yōjirō, 1955-
Motoki, Masahiro, 1965-
Hirosue, Ryōko, 1980-
Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936-
Yo, Kimiko.
Sugimoto, Tetta.
Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935-
Sasano, T. (Takashi)
Hisaishi, Joe.
Regent (Firm)
Here Media (Firm)
Departures Film Partners.
E1 Entertainment (Firm)
Other Title:
Okuribito
ISBN:
1417232919