Completed - JAPANESE - Drama - 131 minutes
Winer of the 2009 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, DEPARTURES is an emotional, inspiring and often amusing story that has all the ingredients of the next 'Life is Beautiful.'
Year of production : 2008 Director(s) : Yojiro TAKITA Writer(s) : Kundo KOYAMA Cast : Masahiro MOTOKI, Tsutomu YAMAZAKI, Ryoko HIROSUE, Kimiko YO Producer(s) : Toshiaki NAKAZAWA, Toshihisa WATAI
DEPARTURES is a beautiful and unusual love story that surprises you with bursts of humor, that moves you with its detail and its humanity - whilst at the same time giving an extraordinary insight into a complex and unique culture. It's a film that will make you laugh and cry - but above all, leaves you with one overriding feeling...joy.
Country(ies) : JAPAN Start of shooting : February 2007
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