After Life
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In Theaters: January 22, 1999 (limited)
May 12, 1999 (limited)
May 12, 1999 (limited)
1h 58m | Drama
In one week, 22 recently deceased people enter a way station
(between heaven and Earth) and work with three counselors and a trainee,
who help them to pick one memory. The memory they choose will be the only one
they can take to eternity. Once chosen they describe the memory to the
staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end. Their stories
reveal not only their personal pleasures and horrors, but also the broader
history of postwar Japan.
The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori (Oda), helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. Shiori also has secret feelings of affection towards her mentor, Mochizuki (Arata).
The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori (Oda), helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. Shiori also has secret feelings of affection towards her mentor, Mochizuki (Arata).
| Director: | Hirokazu Kore-eda, Willem Bosch |
| Studio: | Connaissance du Cinéma |
| Producer(s): | Shiso Sato, Masayuki Akieda, Sato Shiho, Akieda Masayuki |
| Cast: | Sadao Abe, Natsuo Ishido, Kyoko Kagawa, Teketoshi Naito, Erika Oda, Kazuko Shirakawa, Susumu Terajima, Sayaka Yoshino, Arata , Kei Tani, Tôru Yuri, Hisako Hara, Akio Yokohama, Taketoshi Naito, Romana Vrede, Ilse Warringa |
| Writer(s): | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Official Site: | www.artlic.com/films/afterlife.html |
