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Departures (Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito; "one who sends off") is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki. The film follows a young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician. He is subjected to prejudice from those around him, including from his wife, because of strong social taboos against people who deal with death. Eventually he repairs these interpersonal connections through the beauty and dignity of his work.
- Director
- Yōjirō Takita
- Writer
- Kundō Koyama · Aoki Shinmon
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- Release date
- 23 August 2008 · Released
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Genres
- Drama · Musical
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Nokan – Die Kunst des Ausklangs
- Español
- Okuribito
- 한국어
- 굿바이
- Polski
- Pożegnania
- Themes
- toleration ↗
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