Departures (2008)
おくりびと
"The gift of last memories."
Critics Score
🎬 74%
(RT: 80%, MC: 68) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi
Hirosue Ryoko as Mika Kobayashi
Tsutomu Yamazaki as Ikuei Sasaki
Kimiko Yo as Yuriko Kamimura
Tetta Sugimoto as Yamashita
Toru Minegishi as Yoshiki Kobayashi
Tatsuo Yamada as Togashi
Yukiko Tachibana
Is Departures good?
Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 74%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant. Wikipedia ↗
