Synposis: Kamiya Naoki(上矢直輝) is a salaryman who belongs to his company's basketball team. Despite his appearance, he is completely weak under pressure when it comes to work and romance. Although he has a girlfriend, he falls in love with a spirited and cheerful woman who is unable to be straightforward.
Title: 《南京!南京!》/ 《City of Life and Death : Nanking! Nanking!》 Year: April 2009 Country: China/ HK Genre: Drama | War | History Language: 國語 Mandarin Subtitles: Chinese / English Length: 132 min Director: 陸川 Chuan Lu Written By: 陸川 Chuan Lu (screen play)
Cast: 劉燁 Ye Liu 高圓圓 Yuanyuan Gao 中泉英雄 Hideo Nakaizumi 范偉 Wei Fan 秦嵐 Lan Qin 江一燕 Yiyan Jiang 木幡龍 Fanlong Mu 姚笛 Di Yao 趙一穗 Yihui Zhao John Paisley Jun Wei Feng Ryu Kohata 田壯壯 Zhuangzhuang Tian
Synopsis:
City of Life and Death (Chinese: !)is an upcoming Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan, marking his third feature film. The film deals with the Battle of Nanjing and its aftermath (commonly referred to as "The Rape of Nanking" or the "Nanking Massacre") during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film is also known as Nanking! Nanking! or Nanjing! Nanjing!. While originally slated for a 2008 release, the director-general of the Chinese Film Bureau announced in September that the film could be delayed to an early 2009 release.
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.
Title: 《機器俠》/ 《Metallic Attraction：Kungfu Cyborg》 Year: 2009 Country: HK / China Genre: Sci-Fic | Romance | Action | Comedy Language: 國語 Mandarin Subtitles: Chinese Length: 102 mins Director: 劉鎮偉 Jeff Lau Written By: 劉鎮偉 Jeff Lau (screen play)
Casts: 胡軍 Jun Hu 孫儷 Susan Sun Li 方力申 Alex Fong 甘薇 Wei Gan 鄭中基 Ronald 吳京 Jin Wu
Synopsis:
Jeff LAU isn't one of those who like to stay within his comfort zone. This time he goes beyond to the sci-fi genre which is rarely chosen by Chinese filmmakers. With the sky-high production costs, an enormous proportion of the expenditure has been invested into CGIs that are mostly featured in several severe action scenes between the cyborgs.
The story is about K1 - the first cybernetic organism programmed with sophisticated social conscience secretly created by the Chinese government. Without knowing its identity, the villagers love this newcomer when it is sent to this remote area for safety test. K1 undergoes a handful of challenges which mostly are solved with no trouble, except one - Su Mei, a fellow officer falls for "it". For cyborgs, "love" is a deadly virus among humans only and they are not programmed to know how to "love".
One cyborg named K88 disappears after suffering a neural meltdown.K1 and its guardian Da Chun have to hunt down the malfunctioning K88. A crucial confrontation which totally revolutionizes their world is on the verge…
Title: 《Ghosts of Girlfriends Past》 Year: 2009 Country: USA Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance Language: English Subtitles: English & Chinese Length: 100 min Director: Mark Waters Written By: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore (screen play)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey ....Connor Mead Jennifer Garner ....Jenny Perotti Michael Douglas ....Uncle Wayne Breckin Meyer ....Paul Lacey Chabert ....Sandra Robert Forster ....Sergeant Volkom Anne Archer ....Vonda Volkom Emma Stone ....Allison Vandermeersh Daniel Sunjata ....Brad Noureen DeWulf ....Melanie Rachel Boston ....Deena the Bridesmaid Camille Guaty ....Donna the Bridesmaid Amanda Walsh ....Denice the Bridesmaid Emily Foxler ....Nadja Catherine Haena Kim ....Charlece Rachelle Wood ....Brunette Lingerie Model Erin Wyatt ....Blonde Lingerie Model Stephanie Oum ....Kako Christa B. Allen ....Teenage Jenny Christina Milian ....Keelia
Synopsis:
Celebrity photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) loves freedom, fun and women...in that order. A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call, Connor's mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for his kid brother, Paul, and a houseful of well wishers on the eve of Paul's wedding.
Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through his failed relationships—past, present and future. Together they attempt to find out what turned Connor into such an insensitive jerk and whether there is still hope for him to find true love...or if he really is the lost cause everyone thinks he is.
Title: 《Angels & Demons》 Related series: 《The Da Vinci Code》 Year: 2009 Country: USA Genre: Drama/ Mystery /Thriller Language: English Subtitles: English & Chinese Length: 133 mins Director: Ron Howard Written By: Dan Brown (novel) David Koepp, Akiva Goldsman (screen play)
Cast: Tom Hanks ....Robert Langdon Ayelet Zorer ....Vittoria Vetra Ewan McGregor ....Camerlengo Patrick McKenna Stellan Skarsgård ....Commander Richter Pierfrancesco Favino ....Inspector Olivetti Nikolaj Lie Kaas ....Assassin Armin Mueller-Stahl ....Cardinal Strauss Thure Lindhardt ....Chartrand David Pasquesi ....Claudio Vincenzi Cosimo Fusco ....Father Simeon Victor Alfieri ....Lieutenant Valenti Franklin Amobi ....Cardinal Lamasse Curt Lowens ....Cardinal Ebner Bob Yerkes ....Cardinal Guidera Marco Fiorini ....Cardinal Baggia (as Marco Fiorini) Carmen Argenziano ....Silvano Bentivoglio Howard Mungo ....Cardinal Yoruba Rance Howard ....Cardinal Beck Xavier J. Nathan ....Philippe Steve Kehela ....American Reporter Ursula Brooks ....British Reporter Rashmi ....British Reporter 崔燕 Yan Cui ....Chinese Reporter
Synposis:
What terrifying discovery would make the Vatican turn to Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), the man who cracked history's most controversial code? When Langdon finds evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati—the most powerful underground organization in history—he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the Illuminati's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church.
Upon learning that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, Langdon is recruited to travel to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that marks the Vatican's only hope for survival.
Title:《華麗的挑戰 /下一站天后/ 下一站巨星》/ 《Skip Beat!》/《スキップ・ビート！》 Genres: comedy, drama, psychological, romance, supernatural Themes: idols, Inner demons, Stardom Episodes: 25 Language: Japanese Subtitles: Chinese / English Order now:《華麗的挑戰 Skip Beat!》 DVD @ Yesasia.com
Synopsis:
Kyoko followed her true love and childhood friend Sho to Tokyo so she could help him reach his dream of becoming an idol. She cleans, cooks, works three jobs and does nothing for herself because she loves him so much, but gets nothing in return. Still, she remains by his side. But then one day she goes unannounced to his agency with a delivery, and overhears him talking about her; he reveals to his manager that he only took her with him as a maid, and that he doesn't care for her at all. Upon hearing this, Kyoko doesn't just sit around and cry. She cuts and dyes her hair, changes her clothes and attitude and thus begins her journey to join showbiz and have her revenge against Sho.
Title:《吸血鬼騎士 II Guilty》/ 《Vampire Knight - Guilty》/《ヴァンパイア騎士 - Guilty》 Related Series: 《吸血鬼騎士 Vampire Knight》 Genres: action, comedy, drama, romance, supernatural Themes: Bishounen, Girls with guns, Gothic Lolita, Male harem, School life, Vampires Episodes: 13 Language: Japanese Subtitles: Chinese @ 極影&HKG / English Order now:《吸血鬼騎士 II Vampire Knight - Guilty》DVD @ Yesasia.com
Synopsis:
Yuuki starts to remember parts of her forgotten past. and wants to find out about her real family. As she begins to unravel the secrets that where hidden from her to protect her, she must choose between Kuran Kaname, the one she owes her life to, or Kiryuu Zero, whom she has always wanted to protect Yuuki wants to know more about her true family and her forgotten past and starts a research. The secret will be revealed. Yuki, Kaname and Zero will show the begining of a new mystery and a forbidden love.
Title:《吸血鬼騎士》/ 《Vampire Knight》/《ヴァンパイア騎士》 Related Series: 《吸血鬼騎士 II Vampire Knight - Guilty》 Genres: action, comedy, drama, romance, supernatural Themes: Bishounen, Girls with guns, Gothic Lolita, Male harem, School life, Vampires Episodes: 13 Language: Japanese Subtitles: Chinese @ WOLF / English Order now:《吸血鬼騎士 Vampire Knight》DVD @ Yesasia.com
Plot Summary:
Yuki's earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter, wherein she was attacked by a vampire... And then rescued by another. Now 10 years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her savior, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who's hatred for the creatures that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined never to trust them. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions. Is Kaname's infatuation with Yuki the beginning of a forbidden romance, or is it something in her forgotten past that draws him to her. Because in this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems. And the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.
Title: 《再生號》 / 《思念》 / 《Written By》 Year: 2009 Country: 中國香港 Hong Kong Genre: 驚悚 Suspense Language: 粵語 Cantonese Subtitles: 中文 Chinese Length: 84 mins Directior: 韋家輝 Ka-Fai Wai Order now:《再生號 Written By》 DVD @ Yesasia.com
Cast: 劉青雲 Sean Lau 閻清 Qing Yan 林熙蕾 Kelly Lin 谷祖琳 Jo Kuk Mia Yam 黃文慧 Man-Wai Wong
Synopsis:
Where would people go after they die? What is ghost? Does it really exist? Humans feel unfamiliar to, yet fascinated by the after-life… Twelve-year old Melody has lost her father Tony (Lau Ching-wan) in a car accident 10 years ago, she has since lived her life with her mother Mandy (Kelly Lin) and five-year old brother Oscar. A decade has past, a grown-up Melody (Mia Yan) tries to release her mother who has been living in pain of longing for her deceased husband since. Melody decides to write a novel with her mother and brother as a therapy, and to let her father to be 「resurrected」 in the fictional world and be 「reunited」 with him.
Hosts: 曾志偉 Eric Tsang 張艾嘉 Sylvia Chang 鮑起靜 Paw Hee Ching 庾澄慶 Harlem Yu 吳小莉 Sally Ng 陳芷菁 Astrid Chan 陳百祥Nat Chan 崔建邦 Amigo Choi 吳君如 Sandra Ng
Participants:
Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Miriam Yeung, Eason Chan, Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Joey Yung, Michael Tse, Jerry Lamb, Lollipop, Hacken Lee, Kenny Chung, Alan Tam, Rain Li, Sammi Cheng, Kay Tse, Maria Cordero, Gary Chaw, Prudence Liew, Leo Ku, Vivian Chow, Elisa Chan, David Tao, Raymond Lam, Moses Chan, Louis Yuen, Ron Ng, Roger Kwok, Karena Lam, Jin Au-Yeung, Jade Kwan, Barbie Hsu, Dee Hsu, Bernice Liu, Joyce Cheng, Kibby Lau, Katy Kung, Tracy Ip, Sharon Chan, Nancy Wu, Christine Ng, Vivien Yeo, Samantha Ko, Heidi Chu, Raymond Cho, Lowell Lo, Wong Cho Lam, Jaycee Fong, Richie Ren, Theresa Fu, Stephy Tang, Stephanie Cheng, Teresa Carpio, Fiona Sit, 2 moro, Adam Cheng, Emme Wong, Niki Chow, Elanne Kong, Wu Chun, Grasshopper, Julian Cheung, Fahrenheit, Rosamund Kwan, Justin Lo, Hins Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Andy Hui, Edmond Leung, William So, Dicky Cheung, Coco Lee, Joe Cheng, Karen Mok, Charlene Choi, Vincy Chan, Sherman Chung, Deep Ng, Yumiko Cheng, EO2, Freeze, Andrew Lam, William Chan, Jam Hsiao, Soler, Zac Koo, Terence SiuFay, FAMA
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Title: 《保持愛你》 / 《Love Connected》 Year: 2009 Country: 中國香港 Hong Kong Genre: 愛情 Romance Language: 粵語 Cantonese Subtitles: 中文 Chinese Length: 95 mins Directior: 葉念琛 Patrick Kong Order now:《保持愛你 Love Connected》DVD @ Yesasia.com
Cast: 胡清藍 Ching-lam Wu ....Fung 謝安琪 Kay Tse 唐素琪 Chelsea Tong 森美 Sammy Leung ....Fai 梁祖堯 Joey Leung 鄧麗欣 Stephy Tang ....Bo 楊愛瑾 Miki Yeung ....Goldfish 側田 Justin Lo ....Wai Kay Tse ....Fong (as On-kei Tse) Chelsea Tong ....Debbie 靖姍 Celina Jade Katy Kung ....(as Kayan Kung) Jo-yiu Leung ....Joey 梁靖琪 Toby Leung 少爺佔 Yeah Jim Siu Gloria Tang ....(as G.E.M.) Kim-hong Tong Man-yik Wong ....(as Venus Wong) Marie Zhuge
Synposis:
正好在情人節那天，愛情試用期滿的風（胡清藍 飾），他能否得到心儀女神琪（唐素琪 飾）的芳心？偉(側田 飾) 是一位商場駐場歌手，能否憑歌寄意跟在商場內送花的寶（鄧麗欣 飾）開花結果？電車男龍和虎（l Love You Boyz 飾）跟在網上認識的一日情人小金魚（楊愛瑾 飾）發生了一段匪疑所思的奇幻逆緣！祖（梁祖堯 飾）和芳（謝安琪飾）七年感情已到了送院途中的急救階段，一頓情人節晚餐會否是他們的最後晚餐？花心男輝（森美飾）計劃在情人節當天「分身」約會三個女朋友，但想像和現實會否出現意想不到的變卦呢？
Title: 《神槍手》 / 《Sniper》 Year: 2009 Country: 中國/中國香港 China/HK Genre: 動作/驚悚 Action/Suspense Language: 粵語 Cantonese Subtitles: 中文 Chinese Length: 87 mins Directior: 林超賢 Dante Lam Order now:《神槍手 Sniper》DVD @ Yesasia.com
Cast: 任賢齊 Richie Ren 黃曉明 Xiaoming Huang 陳冠希 Edison Chan 葉璇 Michelle Ye 劉浩龍 Wilfred Lau 廖啟智 Kai Chi Liu 高捷 Jack Kao 鄧健泓 Patrick Tang 王秀琳 Mango Wong 林保怡 Bowie Lam
Synopsis: HARTMAN (RICHIE JEN) is renowned as the top shooter in the police force. But behind the legend lies a skeleton in the closet: his former teammate and superb marksman LINCOLN (HUANG XIAOMING), who was jailed for accidentally killing a hostage, has just been released. With only vengeance in his mind, Lincoln determines to take on Hartman and the police, believing they are the real culprits for his fall.
When a high-security prisoner transfer is sabotaged by a mysterious sniper and a major convict has escaped, Hartman and his team are dispatched to profile the suspect. OJ (EDISON CHEN), the hot-headed rookie on the team, surprises everyone by accurately replicating the suspect's impossible shots. Hartman sees the potential in this youngster and decides to take him under his wing. Yet when OJ becomes fascinated by Lincoln and determines to top his shooting skills, he might become another wild card on the loose. Meanwhile, Lincoln continues his plan with the largest heist ever in the city. Believing that Hartman had withheld key evidence that could free him, Lincoln decides to lure his target in by holding Hartman's daughter as hostage and re-enacting that fateful day. It is the ultimate showdown amongst three expert snipers in the Hong Kong cityscape…
Title: 《Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li》 Year: 2009 Country: US/Canada/India/Japan Genre: Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi/Thriller Language: English Length: 96 min Directior: Andrzej Bartkowiak Order now:《Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li》Blu-Ray @ Yesasia
Casts: Kristin Kreuk ...........Chun-Li Michael Clarke Duncan....Balrog Chris Klein..............Nash Moon Bloodgood...........Det. Maya Sunee Pei-pei Cheng...........Zhilan Taboo...................Vega / Balrog (Japan) Edmund Chen.............Xiang Neal McDonough..........M. Bison Robin Shou..............Gen Josie Ho................Cantana Tim Man.................Yung
The movie opens with Chun Li narrating her experience growing up aspiring to be a concert pianist. As a child, she moves from San Francisco to Hong Kong with her family. There, along with piano, she learns Wushu from her father, Xiang, who is a well connected businessman. One night, her home is attacked by Bison and his henchman. Chun Li's father fights them off until Balrog grabs a hold of a young Chun Li, forcing him to surrender. As Bison and his men are leaving with Xiang, Chun Li's mother tries to stop them. Balrog just punches her.
Years later, Chun Li grows up and becomes a talented concert pianist. At the end of one of her concerts, she receives a scroll written in Ancient Chinese text. On her way home, she sees a mysterious homeless man getting assaulted by street thugs. After the thugs leave, Chun Li tends to him and notices a spiderweb tattoo on his hand. Meanwhile, Xiang is shown working for Bison as a prisoner. In return for his services, he is allowed to view pictures of his daughter all grown up. Back home, Chun Li's mother finally loses her battle to cancer as Chun Li and her servants mourn her loss at a funeral
Elsewhere, we see Nash and Maya investigating a murder of several heads of criminal syndicate families in Bangkok. Chun Li on the side is meeting with a wise old lady in town who studies the scroll and tells her to find a man named Gen in Bangkok, revealing to her an image of the same spiderweb she saw tattooed on the homeless man's hand. With a new goal in mind, Chun Li leaves her home and heads to Bangkok. After weeks of searching for Gen without any luck, she sees a man being assaulted in an alley by thugs. Chun Li comes to his rescue and fights them. After a long battle ended by finishing them with a Bike Rack Drop Ultra move, Chun Li collapses in exhaustion. There, we see Gen pick her up to take her to his home.
Gen tells Chun Li that he knows how to find her father and that Bison has him, but that she also needs anger management. In response, she goes to an internet cafe and logs onto shoryuken.com to find out more about Bison, who is now holding the families of property owners hostage in order to force them to sign their property over to him. Upon leaving, one of the owners is asked to hand over the rights to a docking harbor, allowing the shipment of the "White Rose". Chun Li overhears this. Meanwhile at Interpol, Nash figures out that Bison's headquarters are right across the street from the Police Station.
Later that night, Cantana, one of Bison's secretaries, goes to a nightclub. Chun Li spies on her and notices her jocking the girls in the club. Chun Li moves in and seductively dances with her before casually walking away into the bathroom. Cantana, sex driven, follows her and locks the bathroom window. There, Chun Li beats her into giving out the location of the White Rose. Cantana's bodyguards come back and Chun Li escapes after a brief shootout.
We are then told of Bison's origins. He is the son of Irish missionaries. He grew up an orphan having to steal fish from people in Thailand. In order to lose his conscience, he forced his daughter out of the womb of his wife prematurely. This somehow transferred his conscience into her. Back at Gen's home, Bison's henchmen come after Gen and Chun Li. Gen fights them off until Balrog blows up his house with a rocket launcher. With Gen gone and nowhere to be found, Chun Li runs off. She is then attacked by Vega, who she defeats soundly and hangs upside down since his claws weren't sharp enough to cut rope.
Chun Li then heads to the harbor and interrogates an employee into telling her the arrival time of the White Rose. Later that night, this turns out to be a trap as several Shadaloo soldiers capture her. Chun Li is then taken back to Shadaloo headquarters and is reunited with her father. Bison tells her that Xiang outlived his usefulness and breaks his neck, killing him. Bison and Balrog leave Chun Li to the henchman to finish off. Chun Li however escapes when they try to swing her around from the ceiling like a pinata. As she runs away, she is shot in the arm by Balrog. Before Balrog could recapture her, the crowd begins throwing durians at him. This scares Balrog as he drives off in his Benz. Chun Li meanwhile, is rescued again by Gen, who survived the explosion.
Chun Li approaches Nash and tells him she needs backup to take down Bison. Nash and Maya oblige as Chun Li approaches the dock employee who set her up last time. The employee tells her that he was forced into deceiving her and tells her the real arrival time. Chun Li doubts him at first, but he points to the white board at the arrival time, proving that it is true. At the dock later that night, Interpol agents engage in a shootout with Shadaloo soldiers. On a ship, Chun Li finds a girl asking where her father is. Meanwhile, Gen fights Balrog and kills him by stabbing him with a pipe spraying nitrogen. We later find out that the girl is Bison's daughter and her name is Rose, making her the White Rose. Bison takes her in and welcomes her warmly.
Bison walks into his office where he is ambushed by Gen. Gen however is no match for him. Sensing his daughter in danger, Bison goes back to his daughters room, where he finds she is gone. Gen shows up again and ambushes Bison, getting beaten up again. Chun Li then comes in and fights Bison. After a long battle, she hits him with a bamboo pole a couple times and drops some sandbags on him, making him dizzy. She then charges up a Kikoken and shoots it at him, knocking him off the scaffolding they were fighting on, then jumping on his neck and twisting it, killing him.
Back home, Chun Li is settled down as Gen pays her a visit. He shows her an ad for a Street Fighter tournament, telling her about a Japanese fighter named "Ryu something". Chun Li declines, saying that she's home for now.
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. Source: wikipedia
