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Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) loses his job as a cellist when his orchestra is disbanded. He and his wife Mika ( Ryōko Hirosue ) move from Tokyo to his hometown in Yamagata , where they live in his childhood home that was left to him when his mother died two years earlier.
- $70 million
- Yōjirō Takita
- Yasuhiro Mase, Toshiaki Nakazawa
- Joe Hisaishi
Jan 12, 2010 · When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) decides to start over and moves back to his small hometown. Desperate for work, he secretly takes a job as a “Nokanshi,” a funeral professional who prepares the deceased for burial and entrance into the next life.
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- E1 ENTERTAINMENT
- $51.49
- Japanese
Jun 19, 2009 · Departures: Directed by Yôjirô Takita. With Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryôko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki. Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.
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- Drama
- Yôjirô Takita
- 2009-06-19
May 29, 2009 · The brainchild of its leading actor, onetime boy-band member Masahiro Motoki, Departures turns out to be a delightful surprise, at once an engaging dramedy and an eloquent social statement...
- Bob Mondello
Departures (English Subtitled) In this Academy Award-winning drama, a newly unemployed cellist undergoes a profound and sometimes comical journey with death after taking a job at a funeral home. 1,354 IMDb 8.0 2 h 10 min 2009
The father of Daigo ( Masahiro Motoki) walked out on his mother when the boy was 6 years old, and ever since Daigo has hated him for that abandonment. Now about 30, Daigo is a cellist in a small classical orchestra that goes broke.
Dec 5, 2011 · The hero of "Departures" is Daigo (Masahiro Motoki), an impulsive young man, likable, easy to read. His wife Mika ( Ryoko Hirosue ) loves him and believes in him. When disaster strikes, she's quick to agree they must return to the small town where he was born and move into his childhood home, which was left to him after his mother's death not ...
