Yojiro takita biography examples
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Interview: Yojiro Takita of Departures
DEPARTURES directed by Yojiro Takita, written by Kundo Koyama, with Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ryoko Hirosue. A Kino-Smith release. minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (June 12). For venues and times, see listings.
DEPARTURES directed by Yojiro Takita, written by Kundo Koyama, with Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ryoko Hirosue. A Kino-Smith release. minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (June 12). For venues and times, see listings.
Yojiro Takita is no dummy. he knew his labour of love, Departures, had a delicate subject: Japanese funeral rituals, specifically coffining, the act of preparing the body of the deceased.
But that didnt stop him from pursuing the project. He just had to wait until he was old enough to handle it.
It definitely is a risky subject, he tells me on the phone through an interpreter. But death has always been something that intrigued me, especially the coffiners. And when I reached an age
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Sending away the past: Departures (, dir. Yojiro Takita)
For months Ive had a Japanese movie called Departures sitting in my Netflix Instant Queue. What has been my hesitance in watching this film? I suppose the running time (2h 10m) is a part of what had me approach the film carefully, which is odd considering most of my favorite movies are longer than two hours; but I suppose my real hesitance was in what the film was about. Heres what Netflix says:
Young cellist Daigo has an epiphany in which he realizes hes been heading down the wrong career path. Retreating to his hometown, he trains for a new professional role as a nakanshi* one who prepares the dead for burial.
The thought of two hours of a mortician caused me to look at the film suspiciously and approach it carefully.
I love Japanese cinema, whether it be older (Seven Samurai, Harakiri, Ugetsu Monogatari), newer (Seance, Whos Camus Anyway?, Running on Empty), or even ani
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Interview With Go Furukawa: inom Was Lucky I Was Able to Shoot My First bio Based on My Own Original Story
On the occasion of his rulle “Kaneko’s Commissary” screening at Busan International Film Festival, we speak with him about shooting a spelfilm on an unusual subject, the hona characters in the rulle, the famous actors in the cast and his future projects.
Why did you decide to shoot a movie about this particular concept of the detention center commissary?
When I was working as assistant director, I worked in “Departures” by Yojiro Takita. inom was ganska moved bygd the concept of the person who is preparing the