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Life and Death Rituals in Japanese Culture
Departures
Dir.: Yojiro Takita | 130 minutes

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Speaker (in Heb.): Prof. Nissim Otmazgin. Tickets: 75 NIS / Members: 65 NIS

Japan 2008 | 130 minutes | Japanese | Hebrew subtitles

When the orchestra where he plays the cello is dissolved, Daigo and his wife return to his village in northern Japan. He finds a job in a funeral home, and as strange as it may sound - it appears that preparing the deceased bodies for burial may be his true calling.