Our Departures was quite a nice film, but a little too saccharine for it to be great and I have a rather sweet tooth. Synopsis & Details. The movie is a paean to the good-looking corpse. Akira looks for a job. Departures (Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito, "one who sends off") is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.The film follows a young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician. When the film finally rolled around to being screened in NYC, I called a bunch of friends and told them I had a great movie for us to see on our "movie night" outing. She goes to her late husband’s hometown of Kagoshima with her 9-year-old step son Shunya. Enjoy. Our Departures Eng Sub: Okuzono Akira suddenly loses her husband. With Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki. Our enjoyment of the film was not helped by the fact that we had to stop it multiple times to: make dinner, feed, bathe, feed again & put baby to bed. Akira looks for a job. Profile. I read the movie reviews from Campus Circle and find them to be spot on, so when I their review of Departures I knew I wanted to see it. Contact SBS On Demand; 1800 500 727 (toll free) comments@sbs.com.au; Locked Bag 028, Crows Nest NSW 1585 The following Our Departures Episode 1 English SUB has been released.

As nearly as I can recall, there is no discussion of an afterlife. A two our film turned into a five hour ordeal lol. There she meets her fatherinlaw Setsuo. There, she meets her father-in-law Setsuo. In 2009, `Departures` or `Okuribito` won an Oscar as the best foreign movie. Dramacool will always be the first to have the episode so please Bookmark and add us on Facebook for update!!! In this Japanese family drama, connections are forged and tested as unlikely characters learn to connect. A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. Rent Departures (2009) starring Masahiro Motoki and Tsutomu Yamazaki on DVD and Blu-ray. She goes to her late husbands hometown of Kagoshima with her yearold step son Shunya. The story involves a young man who apprentices to the trade of "encoffinment," the preparation of corpses before their cremation. She goes to her late husband’s hometown of Kagoshima with her 9-year-old step son Shunya.

There, she meets her father-in-law Setsuo. Departures is a movie which involves the viewer in an ancient Japanese tradition of the honoring of the dead and the deceased's family and relatives. Looking to make a change after the sudden loss of her husband, a woman decides to travel to her late husband’s hometown with her stepson in tow and tries to reconnect with her husband’s estranged father. Departures (Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito, "one who sends off") is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.The film follows a young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician. The scripting of Departures (by Kundo Koyama, the one-man TV-drama writing factory who nurtured such delights as Iron Chef) is embarrassingly clunky and obvious: the movie’s essential hollowness reveals itself with unusual starkness. Rent Departures (2009) starring Masahiro Motoki and Tsutomu Yamazaki on DVD and Blu-ray.

The three of them begin to live together. Setsuo has been living alone for the past decade, working as a train driver in Kagoshima. Departures is a movie which involves the viewer in an ancient Japanese tradition of the honoring of the dead and the deceased's family and relatives.
She decides to become a railway driver which is what her father-in-law does for a living and what her late husband dreamed of becoming when he was a child.