Departures

When a Japanese cellist (Masahiro Motoki) loses his job and moves with his supportive wife (Ryoko Hirosue) to his childhood home after his orchestra in Tokyo is disbanded in this moving, heartwarming, heartbreaking, Oscar-winning film, he ends up jeopardizing his marriage when he cautiously accepts a job as "encoffineer" where he works with a longtime widower (Tsutomu Yamazaki) to respectfully and gingerly perform a ceremony that prepares the deceased for their departure to the afterlife.
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