Directed by Yojiro Takita
Certificate 12a, 130 mins
The winner of 2009's Best Foreign Film Oscar (and numerous other
awards too), this Japanese film is a rarity, dealing head on with
death not in its horrific or violent aspects but as a life-ritual
as significant as birth. Death being the last great Western taboo,
we ought to pay attention.
Daigo ...
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