DEPARTURES

DEPARTURES
Type of media Film
Approved Running time 130m 29s
Release date 04/12/2009
Ratings Info Contains emotionally intense scenes of bereavement
Genre(s) Comedy, Drama
Director(s) Yojiro Takita
Cast includes Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hiriosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Kimiko Yo, Takeshi Sasano
Cut This work was passed uncut.
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12A
Ratings info
Ratings info publication date 24/11/2009
Note: The following text may contain spoilers
DEPARTURES is a Japanese comedy drama which concerns a man who prepares bodies to be placed into their coffins.
- Theme
There are several bereavement and funeral scenes, and which include sight of corpses dressed and placed in their coffins, grieving families and some emotionally intense moments (for example, a son asks to watch his mother's coffin burn in a crematorium oven, a Father wishes he had accepted his son's transsexual dressing, families blame themselves for suicides, and there is also sight of a small child's body in a coffin).
There is also infrequent mild bad language ('bastard'), some natural nudity in scenes featuring naked bathers in a bath house, mild sex references (for example, a man urgently kisses his wife when distressed, and there are also references to characters' sexuality), and verbal references to suicide.
Details
- Title
- DEPARTURES
- Also known as
- OKURIBITO
- Year
- 2009
- Distributor(s)
- Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
- Classified date(s)
- 05/10/2009
- Main language
- Japanese
- Submitted run time
- 130m 29s
- Approved footage
- 11743+11
- BBFC reference
- AFF263665
- Registration number
- CFJ19975
- Remarks
- Subtitled