DEPARTURES

i watched a japanese movie..named 'Departures'

it's a great! and touching....

i will pay my full respect for those encoffineers....

Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in as archestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife ( LOL!!! so pretty! XD...urmm..abit like anime character) to look for work and start over. He then answers a classified ad entitled ''Departures'' thinking it is an ad for a travel agency only to discover taht the job is actually for a '' Nokanshi'' or '' encoffineer'' a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life( sounds so nice ). While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of '' Nokanshi'' , acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes cominal journey with death as he uncovers teh wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.

One of the conver bet. Daigo and his sensei:( i found that it's funny )

'' One of you always goes first...but it's hard being left behind ''

looking at his piece of food

'' ..is a corpse ''

'' the living eat the dead ''

'' unless they ' re plant ''

'' unless you want to die, you eat ''

'' and if you eat, eat well ''

- one of the moral values i have learnt from this movie...lolx

(continue)

Daigo took the food and ate it...tasting it with his taste buds....from his expression, we would know that the food is delicious.....

'' Good,huh? ''

'' Yes, it is.'' (Daigo)

'' So good i hate myself. '' ''...........''
(btw...food was prepared by his sensei)


lolx...

then...till the end, i only realised that the background musics were conducted by Joe Hisaishi! WOWOO....no wonder ....and this movie , reminding me about some of the pieces which it has been a long time i didnt listen to them...

-Symphony No.9
-Wiegenlied, and
-Ave Maria

=)