Thinking of death is thinking of life

Rating: 10/10 (29 September 2013)

Daigo works as a cellist of a orchestra in Tokyo. But suddenly it breaks up and he loses his job so he and his wife, Mika, goes back to his home. There he finds a help-wanted ad for "travel agents". He thinks it means travel agents as the name but it is, in fact, embalmers. That is to say, the travelers are "bodies" that goes to the other world. Fortunately or unfortunately he starts to work as an embalmer but his friends and wife are against his job. He himself has a difficulty thinking which job he should takes, a cellist or an embalmer. He, finally, makes up his mind.
I began to think over mortality after watching this film. Being dead and being alive are too abstract to understand. But they are the closest to us, I think. No one does not face them in life. Everyone has chance to die so it is very important if we regard it as terrible or as great. The answer depends on situations because the way human dies is different from one to one. However the job of embalmers is a great one and necessary. Embalmer is far from dirty work. Thank to them we can leave for the next world beautifully.
Please watch this film and reconsider mortality and life of ourselves.