peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2009 10 17 Okuribito

Okuribito (Departures)

Sat, Oct 17, 2009./noise/movies | Link

A well-made Japanese flick on the topic of helping people get on with their afterlives. Sentimentality threatens to swamp the other, more carefully wrought aspects at times, and the humour dries up as business is gotten down to in the last third. The acting is all-round superb, and the director makes Japan look like paradise (even during the season of peak business).