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Dominican Rep. Departures
- Original title
- Okuribito (Departures)
- Year
- 2008
- Running time
- 131 min.
- Country
Japan- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Masahiro Motoki
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Ryoko Hirosue
Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Kimiko Yo
Takashi Sasano
Toru Minegishi
Tetta Sugimoto- Yukiko Yachibana
Tatsuo Yamada- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Music
- Synopsis
- Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job and no hope for a career, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as a nokanshi, an "encoffiner", an undertaker, the man who ceremoniously washes and dresses the dead bodies and places them in coffins, sending them onto the next world. He is a bureaucrat, a gatekeeper between life and death. Daigo's work is despised by his wife and all the people around him, but it is through the death that he encounters daily that Daigo finally begins to understand what life is about. Until our own "departure" arrives, we must undertake to "send off" those we have loved. This holds true for the love between married couples, parents and children, and the ties that bind relatives, friends and colleagues.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2008: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture2008: Montréal World Film Festival: Best Film2009: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: 10 awards. 13 nominations
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