Most of Japanese knows about this movie called "Departures (Japanese name : Okuribito)" because this movie received an Academy Award! (Foreign Language Film) Of course, I saw this movie when I was in Japan. My evaluate was 5 Stars!
This movie's leader was one of the cellist in his orchestra after disbanded, he backed to his hometown with his wife and get some job as an undertaker by some mistake.
He worked as an undertaker and see life and death.
To tell the truth, I thought all of Japanese movie that has serious theme are completely waste of money but comedy movie is really fun so the only way to survive Japanese movie is make only comedy movie before see this.
There was a plain but deep-thought camera working (because of lower budget and Hollywood can't be made these plain thing because they love showy and loud), narrate without talking like traditional Japanese movie, laughing, crying, make considered life and death from a philosophy point of view, etc etc...
I think that this is one of the best Japanese movie however, there is a lot of expression for Japanese so It's difficult to understand foreign country people. (Still I can't understand why this movie received award not in Japan but United States )
