Departures
おくりびと
2008
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) — 81st Academy Awards
- Director:
- Yōjirō Takita
- Studio:
- Tokyo Broadcasting System, Amuse Soft Entertainment, Asahi Shimbun, Dentsu, Shochiku
- Starring:
- Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Tetta Sugimoto
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Daigo Kobayashi loses his job as a cellist when his orchestra is disbanded. He and his wife Mika move from Tokyo to his hometown in Yamagata, where they live in his childhood home that was left to him when his mother died two years earlier. It is fronted by a coffee shop that Daigo's father had operated before he ran off with a waitress when Daigo was six; since then the two have had no contact.