Jō Hisaishi
1) Departures
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and finds himself without a job. He decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency. He discovers that the job is actually for a 'Nokanshi' or 'encoffineer,' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry...