A feel-good dramedy about death, Yojiro Takita’s “Departures” would seem to be the first Japanese import in the U.S. in quite some time with a real chance for art-house success, rather than mere ...
“Departures” is a gentle film about a quiet man in conflict with his world, his father, himself. It is also about death and its rituals. Yet the film manages to be anything but dark; whimsy and sweet ...
Masahiro Motoki, left, watches as Tsutomu Yamazaki prepares a body for a coffin in the Oscar-winning Japanese film 'Departures.' Daigo Kobayashi sees dead people. Not in the creepy, M. Night Shyamalan ...