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The following month the film opened in Japan, where it went on to win the Academy Prize for Picture of the Year and become the year's highest-grossing domestic film. This success was topped in 2009, when it became the first Japanese production to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film .
Dec 28, 2014 · Like Ikiru and Tokyo Story before it, Takita’s Departures is another superb film in the rich vein of Japanese cinema exploring the rituals of death. Departures is a story of how these rituals comfort us, enchant us, and see us through to a place where our grief is replaced by respectful acceptance.
Owing to traditional Japanese taboos about death, Takita did not expect the film to be a success. [ 4] However, Departures was the highest-grossing domestic film of 2008 in Japan, earning ¥ 3.05 billion in box office revenue, [ 5] and a total of $69,932,387 worldwide. [ 2]
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
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Mar 25, 2012 · A best Foreign language Oscars winner in 2009, the film marks the beginning of a series of classic and modern greats celebrating the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Qatar and Japan. In our first post, video journalist Jad Salfiti reviews the film.
Departures: Directed by Yôjirô Takita. With Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryôko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki. Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding.
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May 27, 2009 · It is the insight inspiring “Departures,” the lovely Japanese movie that won this year’s Oscar for best foreign film. The story involves a young man who apprentices to the trade of “encoffinment,” the preparation of corpses before their cremation.
