Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Director: Edward Yang
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Writer: Edward Yang
Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin and Issei Ogata
Storyline
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions against his advice, and he reconnects with his first love 30 years after he dumped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting watches emotions roil in their neighbors' flat and is experiencing the first stirrings of love.
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Genres: Drama | Music
Writer: Kundô Koyama
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue and Tsutomu Yamazaki
Category: Japanese Movie
Storyline
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo 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 only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life.
