Amazing Film

Rating: Null/10 (28 September 2017)

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Departures is an amazing film from Japan which tells the story of Daigo, a cello player in an orchestra in Tokyo who moves back to his hometown when the orchestra closes down and becomes a casketing preparation agent (CK Agent is the term in Japan). Overall, I completely loved the film all the way through because it ties almost everything together and really is just a touching movie. However, at some parts the movie did drag along (during the casketing preparations), but it proved to show the intricacy and care taken for this career. It also shows Daigo's eventual passion and thoroughness for how he goes about this choice of career. However, throughout the movie I felt a sadness for Daigo because he was shamed by his old childhood friend, other people spoken of, and eventually his wife because of the job that he took on as a career to make money at first, but then started to enjoy. All in all, I think this movie was incredibly stellar, and would definitely recommend it to a friend (and actually already have).