Departures (2008)
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.
- Released
- 2008-09-13
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Yojiro Takita, Kundo Koyama
- TMDB rating
- 7.9/10 from 972 votes
Cast
- Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi
- Ryoko Hirosue as Mika Kobayashi
- Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ikuei Sasaki
- Kimiko Yo as Yuriko Kamimura
- Tetta Sugimoto as Yamashita
- Toru Minegishi as Yoshiki Kobayashi
- Tatsuo Yamada as Togashi
- Yukiko Tachibana
- Yukari Tachibana as Rie Yamashita
- Genjitsu Shu
- Taro Ishida as Sonezaki
- Yukimi Koyanagi
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