Departures

Departures

2008
★★★★☆ 7.8/10
⏱️ 130 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 JA
Drama
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.

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Crew

Director
Yojiro Takita
Writer
Kundo Koyama
Producer
Yasuhiro Mase, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Ichirô Nobukuni

Production

TBS, Amuse Soft Entertainment, MBS, Sedic, Shogakukan, TBS Radio, Shochiku, dentsu, The Asahi Shimbun

Keywords

dying and deathfuneraloctopuscoffincellomusicalbased on memoir or autobiographyodd jobyamagata