Yōjirō Takita
Shinmon Aoki (; born April 11, 1937) is a Japanese writer and poet. He is best known for his memoirs "Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician", published in 1993. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, "Departures," by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.