Departures

Director: Yôjirô Takita, 2008. (PG-13)What do flying geese have in common with a dead octopus? Both function as a metaphor in this slow but moving masterpiece which won Japan's first ever Oscar (it picked up Best Foreign Picture in 2009). Departures is about dreams dashed and passions rekindled. It offers a portrait of a man who has found meaning in his life. Fundamentally, though, it is a tale about death, and with it, life.Daigo Koboyashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a professional cellist in a...Read Full Story

Departures Review In Departures, a cellist loses his position when the orchestra folds. He moves with his wife from Tokyo to his hometown, admitting to himself that he didn't have what it takes to be a truly successful cellist.Now Diago needs to find a real job. He answers an advertisement looking for someone working in... departures? Must be a travel agency!But he learns that the job is to conduct the rituals for the dead prior to closing the coffin. These rituals traditionally were...Read Full Story

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BrunoOpens Friday, July 10, 2009 - Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The IMAX ExperienceOpens Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - Hogwarts students face attacks from Voldemort and their own rampaging hormones.Star Trek - Trailer 3 DanishFrom director J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible III,” “Lost” and “Alias”) and screenwriters Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (“TRANSFORMERS,” “MI: III”) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure...Read Full Story

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Departures, Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film, is an intriguing film about a topic most us don't want to think about or discuss. Death. Although the topic is depressing, the film is very uplifting. It revolves around the role of encoffiners, people who do the the ceremonial washing, dressing and placing of the deceased into a coffin in the presence of the bereaved. Not only will you be mesmerized by the encoffination techniques, but you will also understand what it means...Read Full Story

It was a very interesting movie last night. My husband buried me in suspense when I asked him what movie we’re going to watch. He kept telling me it’s a SECRET and it’s a cute movie. Okay, I wondered why it’s an undisclosed thing. It sounded weird to me. We even went to a different theater. I just gave up asking when we were on the freeway. I thought we might watch movie somewhere in LA and it’s already 9PM. Maybe he didn’t realize it’s Monday the next day. We usually watch movies every...Read Full Story

Release Date:May 29th, 2009Visit the Website Bookmark this on Delicious Print PageSynopsis "Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job."Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a...Read Full Story