Departures = Okuribito / Shochiku ; Tokyo Broadcast System Pictures ; seisaku purodakushon, Sedikku Intānashonaru ; seisaku [producers], Nobukuni Ichirō, purodyūsā, Nakazawa Toshiaki, Watarai Toshihisa ; kyakuhon [scenario writer] Koyama Kundō ; eigakantoku [directed by] Takita Yôjirô.

おくりびと 制作プロダクション, セディックインターナショナル ; 製作, 信国一朗 ; プロデューサー, 中沢敏明, 渡井敏久 ; 脚本小山薰堂 ; 監督, 滝田洋二郎.

Daigo Kobayashi, a cellist, dreamt of going around the world with his wife Mika. Unfortunately, the orchestra folds, so he sells his instrument, retreats to the small town he came from, lives in his late mother's house, and tries to start a new life. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors: Sedikku Intānashonaru = セディックインターナショナル
Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha
Tōkyō Hōsō
E1 Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Nobukuni, Ichirō = 信国一朗(Producer)
Nakazawa, Toshiaki = 中沢敏明(Producer)
Watarai, Toshihisa = 渡井敏久(Producer)
Koyama, Kundō, 1964- = 小山薰堂(Screenwriter)
Takita, Yōjirō, 1955- = 滝田洋二郎(Director)
Motoki, Masahiro, 1965- = 本木雅弘(Actor)
Hirosue, Ryōko, 1980- = 広末涼子(Actor)
Yo, Kimiko, 1956- = 余貴美子(Actor)
Sugimoto, Tetta = 杉本哲太(Actor)
Minegishi, Tōru, 1943-2008 = 峰岸徹(Actor)
Yoshiyuki, Kazuko, 1935- = 吉行和子(Actor)
Sasano, Takashi, 1948- = 笹野高史(Actor)
Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936- = 山崎努(Actor)
Language:Japanese
Language and/or Writing System:
In Japanese, with optional subtitles in English.
Published: [Tokyo] : Port Washington, NY : Tokyo Broadcast System ; Distributed by E1 Entertainment, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Cellists > Japan > Drama.
Married people > Japan > Drama.
Families > Japan > Drama.
Migration, Internal > Japan > Drama.
Undertakers and undertaking > Japan > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Japan > Drama.
Japanese language films.
Japan > Drama.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Okuribito. [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD

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