Global Issues Japan: Departures [Okuribito] (2008)

Departures [Okuribito] (2008) won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In his review of Departures, Bret Fetzer says,

Departures is surely the gentlest, sweetest movie about death that you will ever see. ... Though it starts out quietly and even seems slight, it gradually builds in emotional power, layer by layer, until scene after scene at the end is richly moving. Particularly affecting is the performance of Kimiko Yo, the secretary of the company, who harbors a troubling secret. A few moments of overt symbolism push the movie from compassion to sentimentality--but every time Departures seems to have lost its footing, a scene follows that strikes all the right notes so deftly it resonates like a bell. A truly marvelous movie. [Source: Amazon.com, 2009]

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