World Cinema- Identifying Japanese Movie DEPARTURE

Identifying Japanese Movie DEPARTURE

Movie: Departure
Category: Drama
Director: Yojiro Takita
Producer: Yojiro Takita
Screenwriter: Kundo Koyama
Movie Length: 130 mins
Languages: Japanese

-This is a universal theme movie that depicting the life and death.
-Which tells of paternity, the love of husband and wife, friendship and proud of the work of righteousness,bringing a unique touch.

Plot
-Daigo Kobayashi loses his job as a cellist when his orchestra is disbanded. He and his wife Mika move from Tokyo to his hometown in Yamagata. His mother was died 2 years ago so nobody at home. It is fronted by coffee shop that Daigo's father had operated before he ran off with a waithress when Daigo was six.

-Daigo find an advertisement for a job "assisting departure". Assuming it to be a job in a travel agency, he goes to the interview at NK Agent office and learns from the secretary Yuriko Kamimura. He will be preparing bodies for cremation in a ceremony known as encoffinment. Daigo is hired on the spot and receives a cash adcance from his new boss Sasaki. Gaigo is futive about his duties and hinds the true nature of the job from Mika.

-His first assignment is to assist with the encoffinment of a woman who died at home and remained undiscovered for two week. He is beset with nausea and later humiliated when strangers on a bus detect an unsavoury scent on him. To clean himself, he vesit a public bath which he had frequented as a child.

-Over time, Daigo becomes comfortable with his profession as he completes a number of assignment and experiences the gratitude of the families of the deceased. However, he faces social ostracism. Daigo refuses to quit, even after Mika discovers a training DVD in which he plays a corpse and she leaves him to return to her parents home.

-After a few months, Mika returns and announces that she is pregnant. She expresses that Daigo will find a job of which their child can be proud. Daigo receive a call for an encoffinment for Mrs Yamashita. Daigo prepares her body in front of both the Yamashita family and Mika, who had known the public bath owner. The ritual earns him respect of all parent, and Mika stops insisting that Dagio change his job.

-Sometimes later, they learn of death of Daigo's father. Daigo is at first unable to recognize him, but takes offence when local funeral wokers are careless with the body. He insists on dressing it himself, and while doing so finds a stone-letter which he  had given to his father, held tight in the dead man's hands. After he finishes the ceremony. Daigo gently presses the stone-letter to Mika's pregnant belly.


Anatomic Daigo's faced and Frame of mind
1) Disillusionment
- When Daigo finally cello artist for fews months, but orchestra is disbanded and he lose a job. He fell that as in the deepth of the tunnel, cant see any exit,

2) Anxious
-A job which do not ask the age, but also to ensure the generous salary? One "body" of the work immediately Dawu creepy, this stuff, how much mony is not capable pf theor own job.

3) Confuse
-Now Daigo is a helpness wretch, in the chi shen people photography room of the dead appeared to wear diapers. He cant face up the reality.

4)Struggling
-They are experiencing difficulty to a particular test? Is this a retribution?  To piano as partners to the piano for the music to panio live, why not this life?

5)Sudden From
- The "dirty"! Do not touch me! Mika out of the way to Daigo. While sad, her eyes fill with tears. Daigo first time saw mika sad like this since he marrige with Mika.

6)Realize
-But it was so cold in winter. Can be so easy to say this past laughing camel, Daigo years after thirty years.

7)Newborn
-Dead does not mean the end, but beyond, is passing through door, a journey for the next! all the way, we meet again.

8)Relieved
-From the need to bring...never forget.