Directed by: Yojiro Takita
Released: 2008
Run time: 127 minutes
Certificate: 12
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A newly unemployed cellist applies for a job entitled 'Departures' thinking it to be a travel agency
Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) learns that the provincial orchestra he plays in is disbanding. Daigo and his wife move back to his hometown in northern Japan, where he answers a job advertisement for what he thinks is a travel agency but turns out to be an undertakers.
As he learns and carries out the rituals used in preparing the dead for their final rest, Daigo finds his true calling in life.
