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Departures
Okuribito おくりびと

Yōjirō Takita  •  Japan  • ​ 2008
130 mins  •  HD  •   Colour  •   M
​
 ​In Japanese with English subtitles

A cellist moves to his old hometown after he is rendered jobless due to his orchestra dissolving. He answers a classifieds ad entitled 'Departures' and finds his life changing due to his new job.

“
Departures is about life, death, grief and loss, but it's also, in a quietly effective way, about coming to terms with expectations.”
– The Age (Australia)
DIRECTOR: Yōjirō Takita​
PRODUCERS: Yasuhiro Mase, Toshiaki Nakazawa
SCREENPLAY: Kundō Koyama
PHOTOGRAPHY: Takeshi Hamada
EDITORS: Akimasa Kawashima
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Fumio Ogawa
COSTUME DESIGNER: Katsuhiko Kitamura
MUSIC: Joe Hisaishi
WITH: Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki




REVIEW

“Director Yojiro Takita has impeccable timing and a constant bubbliness. He expertly mixes what seems like unmixable material. In one moment, clouds of swans fly as Daigo practices his cello in the countryside; in an earlier scene, Daigo emits a Jimmy Stewart–style gobble of panic after Sasaki casts him as a model corpse for a training film.”

—
Richard von Busack, Metroactive


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