Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Script: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Cinematographer: Yamazaki Yutaka, Sukita Masayoshi
Editing: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Sound: Takizawa Osamu
Music: Kasamatsu Yasuhiro
Cast: Arata, Oda Erika, Terajima Susumu, Naito Takashi, Tani Kei, Naito Taketoshi, Abe Sadao, Shoda Kisuke, Shirakawa Kazuko
Production: TV Man Union, Engine Films Production
Distribution:
Tamasa Distribution
63 rue de Ponthieu
75008 Paris
France
Tel: 0033 1.43.59.01.01
Fax: 0033 1.43.59.64.41
Mail: [email protected]
www.tamasadiffusion.com
Year: 1998
35 mm, Colour, 118 mn,
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
Awarded at Nantes, San Sebastian and Torino
In a kind of limbo between heaven and hell, a ‘professional’ team aims to help people who recently died at any age to select one single moment from their memory within a week. Once selected, this moment will be filmed by the limbo team and will become the eternal personal paradise for the deceased. It is not easy to choose a single moment of happiness. Some people have known few of them, others many. Emotions and laughters come out of this improbable encounter between those needing to choose and those backing them for this often painful choice.
After Life is based on the memories of hundreds old Japanese people. Their story reflects their happiness and fears; it is intimately linked to the history of postwar Japan.
“Though the characters are the dead, this is not a film about death but about the pleasure and pain to put an end to past.” Kore-eda-Hirokazu
