Great Movie

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2017)

Departures has to be one of the best movies I've seen this year! The story was great, the content was wonderful and it was a very cute movie to a degree. I thought it was a great look into the Japanese culture and it was awesome to see what the Japanese people feel about these "Undertakers". I honestly thought that the movie had a lot of very cute moments and I thought it was well balanced with a lot of serious moments as well. There was also a lot of great symbolism in the movie as well, like Daigo throwing the octopus back out to the ocean and it dying and when he was watching the river and the salmon were swimming up stream and the one died. I'll let you decipher that for your own. But I also think that its a good thing to watch the movie over again to make sure you get some of the smaller details, like at first, I didn't understand a lot of the finer details until I heard my friends talking about it, like Daigo's father had how he had the stone he gave him when he was a little boy and how he started to gain more and more respect for his father, even after not seeing him for 30 years. Though the movie , in my opinion, lacked a story line of what happened between when the father left and when we first meet Daigo. I would have liked to know a little more about the main character but it is what it is. I do believe though that this was a very good movie and I would recommend this to anyone willing to watch a great foreign movie. 10/10 would watch again.