Friday, June 10, 2011

Okuribito (Departures) (2008)

Director:   Yojiro Takita
Writer:      Kundo Koyama
Language: Japanese
Its essentially a feel good film albeit with a very different story thread. Diago Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a cello player who become unemployed when the orchestra he plays in gets disbanded. He then leaves for his native town with his wife and ends with a job as encoffiner- one who cleans, dresses up and places a dead body into the coffin in presence of family members. The first half of the film is excellent but the second half is very predictable.

It won the 2009 Oscar in foreign film category beating out 'Waltz with Bashir' and 'Entre les murs' both of which in my opinion are far better films.

Rating: 3/5 

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