Departures - Movie Info

Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded. Suddenly on the street without a job, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife. There he gets a job as an undertaker. He sees himself as a sort of gatekeeper between life and death. However, Daigo's work is despised by all the people around him. But it is through his relationship with death on a daily basis that Daigo begins to understand what life is really about.

Cast
Tsutomu Yamazaki as Sasaki/ Ikuei Sasaki
Kimiko Yo as Yuriko Kobayashi/ Kamimura Yuriko
Ryoko Hirosue as Mika Kobayashi/ Mika Kobayashi
Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi
Takashi Sasano as Shokichi Hirata
Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Tsuyako Yamashita
Tetta Sugimoto as Yamashita
Toru Minegishi
Tatsuo Yamada

Detail Info
Directors Yojiro Takita
Producers Yasuhiro Mase, Toshiaki Nakazawa
Editor Akimasa Kawashima
Music Joe Hisaishi
AKA Departures, Okuribito
Genres Art/Foreign and Drama
Running Time 2 hrs. 11 min.
Release Date May 29th, 2009 (limited)
MPAA Rating PG-13 for thematic material.
Distributors Regent Releasing
Production Co. Asahi Shimbunsha, Dentsu, Mainichi Hoso, Sedic International Inc, Shochiku Company, Ltd., Shogakukan Production Company, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)
Produced in Japan