a very sad movie

Rating: 7/10 (16 April 2012)

This is a very sad movie. Most of the movie involves a Japanese ceremony called coffining, publicly preparing the dead for burial. The lead actor Masahiro Motoki is handsome and boyish, and plays his role with comic ham exaggeration. It is not much about cellos.
This is the first time I had any appreciation how ceremonies elegantly performed can help people over the trying humps in life.
Part of the sadness comes from Daigo and his wife giving up grand dreams and settling for more ordinary ones.
Part of it comes simply from realising everyone is gradually getting older and will inevitably die.