Departures



Director: Yojiro Takita
Brilliant piece of work. Must see!
Daigo Kobayashi is lively and shy! Very quickly the viewer is taken into a strange situation revolving around the idea of death or life around death, what ever you want to call it! Very gripping and thematic, a lot to learn form the traditional cultures and see it operating sometimes in modernity.

Now showing on UTV World Movies

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