Movie Critic Review: Departures 2008
Filmmaker Takida おくりびと First time I saw this movie was when I visited a friend who ran a movie theater in London and got an instant invitation from him to watch a movie right behind the spot where we were chatting. More than a year later, this friend passed a mysterious envelope to my hand when he started to withdraw from the crowded reception room where I was receiving mourners on my brother's death. He said: "A gift for you!" The envelope contained a DVD of none other than the movie we saw together Departures , the Japanese movie that shows how the dead can possibly get a nice help in their departures! It was a well-thought-of expression of grief from my friend. After he left I rummaged the envelope. There wasn't a 'stone letter' lurking behind the DVD! How To Make Death Part Of Life? A Summary Daigo (a musician) who lost his job moves from Tokyo with his good-spirited wife back to his small childhood town to rethink his options. He and his wife ...