Departures Trailerhttp://www.puztv.com - Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures is a delightful journey into the heartland of Japan as well an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japanâs cultural heritage. âDeparturesâ follows Daigo Kobayashi, 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 âDeparturesâ thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a âNokanshiâ or âencoffineer,â a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of âNokanshi,â acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical ...
