I foresee the movie to be a story of travel. I pictured someone in the departure area of an airport waiting for the scheduled flight. But it's not.
Daigo, the lead character of the film ends up working as encoffiner after the orchestra where he played most of his life, dissolved for no apparent reason.
He was one the cellist who finds himself unemployed after their manager announced the unexpected news.Without hesitation, he sold his prized cello and moved back to his hometown in the suburbs of Tokyo to start a new life with his wife.
He searched for jobs until one day he found an ad in the local newspaper, for a certain company. He visited the place and yes, the owner hired him instantly.
Daigo thought the company was a travel agency.In fact, he was imagining himself going to places he never visited before. Ironically, he didn't see anything that would confirm what he thought, but coffins piled neatly on the office walls. The owner then explained to him that the ad was erroneously printed. It could have been "the departed" instead of "departures". Unfortunately, Daigo was really in need of a job and this started the whole thing "encoffiner".
The owner, who was also his mentor taught him the basics of the skill. From the wiping the corpse, dressing and putting make-ups to make the body look alive.
At first, his intestines almost moved out vomiting the whole time on his first try, coincidentally on a woman's body feasted with worms and flies. He got used to these things and eventually, he mastered the technique to counteract the awkward feeling.
He was busy with his new found job but he never failed to go back to his first love and passion, playing the cello.He tries to rekindle the good days with his parents who parted ways when he was still a teenager. The faded cello he used, given by his parents years back became the eyewitness in his reminiscing moments.
Is it destiny? He received a call from his boss one day, told to proceed to a town several miles away, to fulfill his professional responsibility. It turned out that the body was his father's corpse, who he haven't seen for years.
Such encounter seems to be the highlight of the film. Daigo and his wife were really emotional and so do I.
Departures. A film worth watching. It was a story of love. Of failure and hopes. A story of persistence and hard work. Above all, it was a story of family values.
Daigo, the lead character of the film ends up working as encoffiner after the orchestra where he played most of his life, dissolved for no apparent reason.
He was one the cellist who finds himself unemployed after their manager announced the unexpected news.Without hesitation, he sold his prized cello and moved back to his hometown in the suburbs of Tokyo to start a new life with his wife.
He searched for jobs until one day he found an ad in the local newspaper, for a certain company. He visited the place and yes, the owner hired him instantly.
Daigo thought the company was a travel agency.In fact, he was imagining himself going to places he never visited before. Ironically, he didn't see anything that would confirm what he thought, but coffins piled neatly on the office walls. The owner then explained to him that the ad was erroneously printed. It could have been "the departed" instead of "departures". Unfortunately, Daigo was really in need of a job and this started the whole thing "encoffiner".
The owner, who was also his mentor taught him the basics of the skill. From the wiping the corpse, dressing and putting make-ups to make the body look alive.
At first, his intestines almost moved out vomiting the whole time on his first try, coincidentally on a woman's body feasted with worms and flies. He got used to these things and eventually, he mastered the technique to counteract the awkward feeling.
He was busy with his new found job but he never failed to go back to his first love and passion, playing the cello.He tries to rekindle the good days with his parents who parted ways when he was still a teenager. The faded cello he used, given by his parents years back became the eyewitness in his reminiscing moments.
Is it destiny? He received a call from his boss one day, told to proceed to a town several miles away, to fulfill his professional responsibility. It turned out that the body was his father's corpse, who he haven't seen for years.
Such encounter seems to be the highlight of the film. Daigo and his wife were really emotional and so do I.
Departures. A film worth watching. It was a story of love. Of failure and hopes. A story of persistence and hard work. Above all, it was a story of family values.
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