Departures (12A)
Okuribito
Mon 8 & Tue 9 Mar
Cinema £6.50 (£5.25)
Certificate: 12A
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CloseDir: Yojiro Takita
Japan 2008 131mins
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Academy Award Winner – Best Foreign Language Film (2009)
With the break-up of his Tokyo Orchestra, Daigo, a young cellist, decides to return with his adoring wife Mika to his hometown in Japan’s far north. Searching for work, he responds to a cryptic classified ad for work in ‘Departures’ only to find out that the position is not in travel, but in the field of ‘encoffining’, the ritual preparation of a corpse before it is placed in a casket for cremation.
Daigo gradually takes to the work and finds he has a real talent, but he is too ashamed to tell Mika, leaving him torn between his true calling and his marriage.
A story of love, of discovery, of revelation and of the transcending human spirit, Departures will linger in your heart and mind for some time.
“Full of wit and warmth this is cinema at its most affecting.” Empire
Dates & Times
| Mon 8 Mar | Cinema | 6:15pm | ||
| Tue 9 Mar | Cinema | 8:45pm |
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