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Departures (2008)
Directed by Yojiro Takita
“The gift of last memories.”
Drama · 2h 10m
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
Cast
Masahiro Motoki
Ryoko Hirosue
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Kimiko Yo
Tetta Sugimoto
Toru Minegishi
Tatsuo Yamada
Yukiko Tachibana
Yukari Tachibana
Taro Ishida
Yukimi Koyanagi
Crew
- Director
- Yojiro Takita
- Screenplay
- Kundo Koyama
- Director of Photography
- Takeshi Hamada
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Hisaishi
- Editor
- Akimasa Kawashima
- Producer
- Ichirô Nobukuni, Toshihisa Watai, Toshiaki Nakazawa
Details
- Original title
- おくりびと
- Release date
- 2008-09-13
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TBS, Amuse Soft Entertainment, MBS, Sedic, Shogakukan, TBS Radio, Shochiku, dentsu, The Asahi Shimbun
- Box office
- $69,932,387