Dinner & a Movie – ‘Departures (Okuribito)’

Join the JASG for a Dinner & Movie Series featuring Departures, a 2008 Japanese drama film about a young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician. It won the grand prize at the Montreal World Film Festival and the Japanese Academy Prize for Picture of the Year in 2008; then in 2009, it became the first Japanese production to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.