After Life
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- Movie: After Life
- Romaji: Wandâfuru raifu
- Japanese: ワンダフルライフ
- Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
- Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda
- Producer:
- Cinemotagraphy:
- Release Date: April 17, 1999
- Runtime: 118 Min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
[edit] Plot
Set in a purgatory limbo that looks an awful lot like an old brick school on a perfect autumn day. Guides assist the newly dead in selecting their most treasured memory, the one they will take with them to eternity. While some people have no trouble choosing, others agonise over the decision. A multitude of stories emerge, most of them gleaned from the hundreds of interviews Kore-eda conducted with ordinary citizens, some of whom appear in the film. Meanwhile, the staff gather to discuss various cases, especially those in danger of never recovering a truly joyous memory.
[edit] Notes
“Kore-eda jumps straight to the head of the queue as a major international talent… A slyly humorous, utterly original and generous-hearted tribute to the power of basic human attributes.” – Variety
[edit] Cast
- Arata - Takashi Mochizuki, counsellor
- Erika Oda - Shiori Satonaka, trainee counsellor
- Susumu Terajima - Satoru Kawashima, counsellor
- Takashi Naito - Takuro Sugie, counsellor
- Kyoko Kagawa - Kyoko Watanabe, Ichiro's Wife
- Kei Tani - Kennosuke Nakamura, boss
- Taketoshi Naito - Ichiro Watanabe, who cannot choose his favourite experience
- Toru Yuri - Gisuke Shoda, who talks about sex
- Yusuke Iseya - Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience
- Sayaka Yoshino - Kana Yoshino, talks about Disneyland
- Kazuko Shirakawa - Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man
- Kotaro Shiga - Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past
- Hisako Hara - Kiyo Nishimura, old lady who loves cherry blossoms
- Sadao Abe - Ichiro (as young man)
- Natsuo Ishido - Kyoko Watanabe as a young woman
