After Life
1998·Japan·118 min.
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After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end; eternity follows. 22 dead arrive that week, assigned to three counselors and a trainee. One old man cannot find a memory, so he watches videotape of his life. Others pick their memory quickly, and the film crew gets right to work. The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori, helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. The youthful staff have a secret and feelings, too, which play out, especially Shiori's affection for her mentor, Mochizuki.
DirectorHirokazu Koreeda
ScreenwriterHirokazu Koreeda
MusicYasuhiro Kasamatsu
CinematographyYukuru Sato
CastArata Iura·Erika Oda·Susumu Terajima·Takashi Naitô·Yusuke Iseya·Kyôko Kagawa·Kei Tani·Taketoshi Naitô·Tôru Yuri·Sayaka Yoshino·Kazuko Shirakawa·Kotaro Shiga·Hisako Hara·Sadao Abe·Natsuo IshidoShow all
Original titleWandafuru raifu (After Life)