‘Departures’ By.Prakash Surya

The Japanese film, released in 2008, was directed by Yojiro Takita:From the cemetery to a happy life. It was the first Japanese film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. Motoki, a 27-year-old man who visited Varanasi during a visit to India, where he was inspired by the cremation and cremation on the banks of the Ganges, returned to Japan and wrote a novel on life and death titled Tenkue Seiza – Hill Heaven, which was later adapted into a film. Death is a question, death is a problem, death is a truth, death is a revelation. Some people become wise when they see certain deaths, and for them, they become a beacon of light on the way to their beautiful life. This material life provides an opportunity to realize a beautiful, pleasant fantasy world. The story is about an unemployed musician or cellist who joins a funeral company called Departure as a traveling agency, experiences the graveyard sickness, learns the secret of life and lives his life happily. The great thing about this film is the way the director runs the story without disturbing the mood of the auditorium. Driving the narrative as if each scene is a challenge to the other is probably what attracted the Oscar Committee. The point really makes one think whether death, which everyone in the world is afraid of, is an inspiration to make life beautiful. To make such films, you have to convince the audience. It is special to take the emotion of death and add the emotion of happiness to it and narrate it well. In a word, it’s an organic story. Finally, in the words of the famous critics Friedrich and Anna Brauth:  ‘An exquisite cinematic masterpiece that touches the heart with its treatment of beauty, music, death, and abandonment’.                                                                                                                       By.Prakash Surya