Departures [videorecording] /
a Regent/Here media ; screenplay by Kundo Koyama ; produced by Toshiaki Nakazawa and Toshihisa Watai ; directed by Yojiro Takita.
- [United States] : E1 Entertainment, 2009.
- 1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as the motion picture "Okuribito" in 2008.
Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki.
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art, acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed.
DVD NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 2.0 Dolby Digital or 5.1 surround sound
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
1417232919 9781417232918
741952675792
Violoncellists--Japan--Drama
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Japan--Drama.
791.4372 / DEP 2009
Originally released as the motion picture "Okuribito" in 2008.
Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki.
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art, acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed.
DVD NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 2.0 Dolby Digital or 5.1 surround sound
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
1417232919 9781417232918
741952675792
Violoncellists--Japan--Drama
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Japan--Drama.
791.4372 / DEP 2009