Description: This was the official website for the 2009 movie, Departures. The content below is from the site's 2009 pages and other outside sources.
This was the official website for the 2009 movie, Departures. The content below is from the site's 2009 pages and other outside sources. Archive assistance provided by TNG/Earthling 's CEO Bob Sakayama with help from OneInAmelia and DirtsGood.
Nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film of the year, "Departures" is a delightful and sensitive excursion into the heartland of Japan and an astonishingly beautiful look at a very special part of Japan's cultural heritage. A premiere symphony orchestra in Tokyo disbands, leaving Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) suddenly unemployed. Suffering from an innate sense that he is a mediocre musician, he faces up to the fact that not everyone who has devoted their life to music can become a t
Spotting a Help Wanted ad featuring the word “departures,” he is excited about the prospect of trying a new career in the travel industry. He arrives for the interview, curiously eyeing the coffins lining the back wall of the office. The company owner, Sasaki (Tsutomu Yamazaki), hires him on the spot, with only a cursory glance at his resume. Daigo finally ventures to ask what is involved, exactly, and is stunned to learn what he has gotten himself into; the ceremonial “encoffination” of corpses prior to
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