🗾💀 Departures: the challenge to the taboo of death

An unexpectedly deep work from the former director of soft porn movies Yōjirō Takita.

This 2008 film tells the story of Daigo, a young cellist who is suddenly unemployed and returns to his native country. He will find an ad on a newspaper from a company that "attends who departs."

Curiously, the young man sets up an interview with what he thinks is a travel agency, but he will find that it is actually a company that carries out traditional funeral ceremonies to prepare the dead for their "last trip".

Daigo still accepts the place and discovers an unknown world, deep and charming. So he hides his employment from his wife.

The technical director of the travel agency.
No customer ever complained about his service. 😆

Departures is an over the line film, which in the East has challenged the death taboo and won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2009.

I recommended it to those who want to find out a little-known part of Japanese culture, get out of the schemes and get rid of the prejudices that surround the subject of the death.

Plot and curiosities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departures

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What do you think about the death? Do you consider it a taboo?