《送行者：禮儀師的樂章 Departures》(2008)

Title: 《送行者：禮儀師的樂章 Departures》 / おくりびと
Release Date: 2008-9-13
Subtitles: Chinese
[地 區] 日本
[顏 色] 彩色
[時 長] 130 min
[類 型] 溫馨、劇情
[導 演] 瀧田洋二郎 Yōjirō Takita
[演 員]
* 本木雅弘 Masahiro Motoki...Daigo Kobayashi
* 廣末涼子 Ryoko Hirosue.....Mika Kobayashi
* Kazuko Yoshiyuki.........Tsuyako Yamashita, a lady running sentō
* 山崎 努 Tsutomu Yamazaki..Shōei Sasaki, President of NK Agency
* Kimiko Yo................Yuriko Uemura, an employee of NK Agency
* Takashi Sasano...........Shōkichi Hirata, a regular customer of Tsuyako's sentō
* Tetta Sugimoto...........Yamashita, a son of Tsuyako, Daigo's old classmate
* Toru Minegishi...........Toshiki Kobayashi, Daigo's father
* Tarō Ishida..............Mr. Sonezaki, the owner of Daigo's orchestra

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Synopsis:

Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a cellist in an orchestra in Tokyo, loses his job because of dissolution of the orchestra. After quitting as a professional cellist, he decides to sell his cello which he had recently purchased for 18 million yen, then deciding to move back to his old hometown, Sakata, Yamagata, along with his wife. One day, he finds a classified ad entitled "Assisting departures" for an "NK Agency". He goes to the job interview thinking it is for a job at a travel agency. But at the interview, he discovers that NK is an abbreviation for "encoffinment" (納棺, nōkan?), and he is instead to assist the "departed". The interviewer, the President of NK Agency, immediately decides to hire Daigo after confirming that Daigo is able to "work hard." The salary is 500,000 yen per month with an additional 20,000 yen bonus for the interview. With no other job prospects, Daigo decides to accept the offer. However, when he comes home to his wife, he finds himself unable to admit the type of work he will be doing, so he dissembles, saying that he is to be employed in the 'ceremonial occasions industry.'

Daigo has a hard time at his first day of work, being made to act as a corpse in a DVD explaining the procedure of encoffinment. More harrowing still is his first assignment which is, in preparation for the wake, to clean, dress and apply cosmetics to the body of an aged lady who has died alone at home remaining undiscovered for two weeks. Beset with nausea at the sight and smell of her collapsed body, but in need of the money that is paid at the end of each day, Daigo sets out in his new career. Daigo completes a number of assigments, and experiences the joy and gratitude at his work of those left behind. He starts to feel a sense of fulfillment in his work when his wife, Mika, (Ryoko Hirosue) finds the training DVD and begs him to give up such a "disgusting profession." Daigo, however refuses to quit, so his wife leaves him. Even his old friend, Yamashita (Tetta Sugimoto), learning of his job, tells him to get "a proper job", then avoids him because of his refusal.

Not long later however, Daigo's wife returns announcing that she is pregnant and pleads with him once again to find a different source of income. At this moment the telephone rings with a new assignment. Yamashita's mother, Tsuyako (Kazuko Yoshiyuki), who ran the local bathhouse on her own, has died. In front of Yamashita, his family and Mika, Daigo prepares Tsuyako's body for her wake and earns the respect and understanding of all present. Then one day, a telegram is delivered to Daigo's house, with notification of the death of Daigo's estranged father. Daigo refuses to see his dead father, but Mika and Daigo's co-worker convince him to go. When Daigo sees his father, he notices that he has left only one cardboard box of belongings, despite the fact that he lived 70-odd years. Funeral workers come to get Daigo's father's corpse, but Daigo decides to personally encoffin his father. As he encoffins him, Daigo finds a "stone-letter" he had given to his father when he was little; the stone-letter was grasped in his father's hands. When Daigo is finished, he recognizes the father he remembered and cries. As his father is carried away in a coffin, Daigo presses the stone-letter to Mika's pregnant belly.

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原本在東京交響樂團擔任大提琴手的大悟（本木雅弘飾演），因樂團突然解散而放棄演奏家之路。失業的大悟於是和妻子美香（廣末涼子飾演）回到故鄉山形縣，在報紙上看到「旅途協助工作」的徵職廣告而前往應徵，意外當場獲得錄用。詳問之後，大悟才知對方徵的是禮儀師！禁不住社長（山崎努飾演）半強迫半利誘說服，他不情願地開始這份工作。
初時大悟十分恐懼排斥，還得應付親友的誤解、週遭的鄙夷，讓他數度興起辭職念頭。但在親身經歷一場場送行儀式後，他漸漸瞭解到禮儀師妝扮往生者「走上來生旅途」的重要意義，終能自信地投入工作，並重獲眾人尊敬。也因看盡死別的不捨與悲傷，大悟下定決心面對失落已久的親情。在死生交界處，最美的送行帶來最深的體悟。

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