But in Kore-eda Hirokazu's exquisite film After Life, it's just a job. You might say it's a living, but there's not a living being among the film's two dozen or so characters.
Dead people are all there is to see.
The film begins in what looks like an old school or government building, gray, drab and official. But he's confident they can handle it, so the caseworkers gather their files and settle at their desks to await their clients. They see dead people. The place is a kind of way station between earth and eternity. The clients are the recently dead.