Departures / Okuribito + Bonus Features DVD

Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Hirosue Ryoko, Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Language: Japanese / Cantonese

Subtitle: English / Chinese

Media Type: NTSC, Region Code 3

No of CDs: 1 DVD + BONUS: Special Features

Shipping Origin: MALAYSIA

Rating for English subtitled: Good

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OKURIBITO Aka Departures 入验尸 DVD

This is the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film in Academy Award as well as 10 Japan Academy Prize Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and numerous international awards.

Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself 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.