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After Life
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
1999 · Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda · 118 min · Fantasy · Drama · 42 frames
Tagline
What is the one memory you would take with you?
Crew
- Screenplay: Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Cinematography: Yutaka Yamazaki, Masayoshi Sukita
- Edited by: Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Music: Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
- Production design: Hideo Gunji, Toshihiro Isomi
- Produced by: Shiho Sato, Masayuki Akieda
Cast
- Arata Iura as Takashi Mochizuki
- Erika Oda as Shiori Satonaka
- Susumu Terajima as Satoru Kawashima
- Takashi Naito as Takuro Sugie
- Kei Tani as Kennosuke Nakamura
- Kyōko Kagawa as Kyoko Watanabe
- Tōru Yuri as Gisuke Shoda
- Yusuke Iseya as Yusuke Iseya
- Sayaka Yoshino as Kana Yoshino
- Kazuko Shirakawa as Nobuko Amano
Production
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Studios: Engine Film, Sputnik Productions, TV Man Union
- Themes: airplane, grandparent grandchild relationship, cloud, heaven, old man, bell, teenage girl, memory, videotape, eternity
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