Sep 13, 2008
130 min
Full-HD

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.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

TBS Amuse Soft Entertainment MBS Sedic Shogakukan TBS Radio Shochiku dentsu The Asahi Shimbun

Masahiro Motoki

Daigo Kobayashi

Hirosue Ryoko

Mika Kobayashi

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Ikuei Sasaki

Kimiko Yo

Yuriko Kamimura

Tetta Sugimoto

Yamashita

Toru Minegishi

Yoshiki Kobayashi

Tatsuo Yamada

Togashi

Yukiko Tachibana

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