Winner: Academy Award - Best Foreign Language Film, Winner: 10 Japan Academy Prize Awards including Best Picture, Best Director & Best Actor A premiere symphony orchestra in Tokyo disbands, leaving Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) suddenly unemployed. Suffering from a sense that he is a mediocre musician, he moves, with wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue) in tow, back to his home town and responds to a help wanted ad reading “Departures”- a funeral preparation business he believes to be a travel agency. With gentle humor, DEPARTURES touches on love, discovery and the transcending human spirit.
