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Director: | Arata, Kagawa, Kyôko, Koreeda, Hirokazu, Naitô, Takashi, Oda, Erika, Terajima, Susumu |
Studio: | Engine Film |
Writer: | Hirokazu Koreeda |
Rating: | 7.7 (4,759 votes) |
Date Added: | 2012-06-05 |
ASIN: | 717119733049 |
Awards: | 7 wins & 7 nominations |
Genre: | Japanese films |
IMDb: | 0165078 |
Duration: | 1:58:00 |
Aspect Ratio: | 1.66 : 1 |
Sound: | Mono |
Languages: | Japanese |
Subtitles: | English |
LAC code: | 300009087 |
DVD or VHS: | DVD |
Original: | original |
Arata, Kagawa, Kyôko, Koreeda, Hirokazu, Naitô, Takashi, Oda, Erika, Terajima, Susumu | ... | (Director) |
Hirokazu Koreeda | ... | (Writer) |
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Arata | ... | Takashi Mochizuki, counsellor | Erika Oda | ... | Shiori Satonaka, trainee counsellor | Susumu Terajima | ... | Satoru Kawashima, counsellor | Takashi Naitô | ... | Takuro Sugie, counsellor | Kyôko Kagawa | ... | Kyoko Watanabe, Ichiro's Wife | Kei Tani | ... | Kennosuke Nakamura, boss | Taketoshi Naitô | ... | Ichiro Watanabe, who cannot choose his favourite experience | Tôru Yuri | ... | Gisuke Shoda, who talks about sex | Yûsuke Iseya | ... | Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience | Sayaka Yoshino | ... | Kana Yoshino, talks about Disneyland | Kazuko Shirakawa | ... | Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man | Kotaro Shiga | ... | Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past | Hisako Hara | ... | Kiyo Nishimura, old lady who loves cherry blossoms | Sadao Abe | ... | Ichiro (as young man) | Natsuo Ishidô | ... | Kyoko Watanabe as a young woman |
Summary: This unpretentious, endearing film is a modest triumph. Based on interviews with more than 500 people about the one memory they would choose to take with them to heaven, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda has modeled a unique blend of documentary and fiction that addresses the vagaries of memory but also what it means to make films. After Life transpires in a sort of way station where the dead must select one memory to be re-created on film and taken on with them forever, relinquishing everything else. Over the span of a week, a dedicated group of caseworkers tease out self-deceptions as well as real epiphanies from 22 different lives. An old woman remembers reuniting with her husband on a crowded bridge after World War II; a man recollects the breeze felt on a tram ride the day before summer vacation; a successful man faces his own treachery. Remembering becomes a courageous act in the casual exposition of this lovely film. --Fionn Meade
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