refined and poetic film niche remained in theaters for a few days, tells of a very talented young cellist in the orchestra was forced to close its doors. Daigo, this is his name, so he moved in the little village native, followed by his wife Mika, sweet and submissive to the incredible. Quickly find a job very well paid but at least unexpected, as tanatoestetica. That is, she accompanies her clients in the most important trip of their lives: the last. Through a complex ritual prepares the bodies of the dead to reach the next world in peace, facilitating the bereaved survivors correspondence heavenly love Foscolo meaning of memory. But Japan is a land of bitter contradictions and, if it is true that the ritual end-of-life edopo are ancient and chiseled, it is equally true that anyone who takes care of it is the victim of an anachronistic ostracism, justified by the unconscious horror of death (and the dead, seen as alien). While the obedient wife of the protagonist does not accept this change in the career of her husband, who finds comfort in comparison with the main non-philosopher and a great cook, and with the secretary of the company, as long as the care and compassion that infuses his craft Daigo not regained.
Beautiful, intense and sometimes deeply funny, this film leaves really a good sign behind him, great actors, especially the interpreter's main business, and the wonderful music of the great Joe Hisaishi, the well-known Morricone Japanese in Italy for having edited the soundtracks of films by Miyazaki. Deserved Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 2009.
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