This year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures is a delightful and sensitive journey into the heartland of Japan and an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of the country's cultural heritage, the preparation of the dead before cremation. When a premiere symphony orchestra in Tokyo disbands, Daigo is left suddenly unemployed. Forced to rethink his career, he moves away with his wife to the crumbling remains of his mother’s house, and answers a job ad wanting help with ‘departures’. Daigo is about to discover his brand new life.
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