We all have to thank Roger Ebert who included Departures as the most unassuming movie on his Great Films list. He was right, it is great.
DEPARTURES
Yōjirō Takita
2008
Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kimiko Yo, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Screenplay by Koyama Kundō