Ryôko Hirosue

  • Hideo Nakata – Owatta hito AKA Life in Overtime (2018)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaHideo NakataJapan

    Description from Tōei’s Website :
    “Retirement is like holding your own funeral while you’re still alive…”
    So goes the startling first line of Makiko Uchidate’s best-selling novel, which has now become a major motion picture!
    Uchidate is perhaps best known as a prolific screenwriter of numerous hit television shows, including the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) epic period drama series “Mouri Motonari” (1997) and morning drama serial “Hirari” (1992-1993). For her 2015 novel “Owatta Hito,” she expressed the sorrow of a man who comes to the end of his elite corporate career, and captured the imaginations of countless readers.Read More »

  • Yôjirô Takita – Okuribito AKA Departures (2008) (HD)

    2001-2010AsianDramaJapanYôjirô Takita

    With the breakup of his Tokyo orchestra, a young cellist returns with his adoring wife to his hometown. Searching for work, he responds to a cryptic ad for work in “Departures”, only to find out that the position is in the ritual preparation of corpses.Read More »

  • Yôjirô Takita – Okuribito AKA Departures (2008)

    2001-2010AsianDramaJapanYôjirô Takita

    Synopsis
    Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo 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 only to discover 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 of “Nokanshi,” acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.Read More »

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