Movie 'Undertaker'

DVD case of 'Okuribito'

A student of mine said that she liked the Japanese movie, 'Okuribito', whose English title is 'Departure'. The story is about a young man who becomes an undertaker after losing his job as a cellist, due to the dissolution of the orchestra he had belonged to. It wonderfully describes his coflict and change of heart, from cellist to undertaker. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who is interested not only in Japanese culture, but in the transformation of the human heart. Japanese movies are not only Kurosawa or Studio Ghibli.