おくりびと

Departures

概要		OUTLINE
製作年	2008	Year	2008
上映時間	130分	Running Time	130min.
製作国	日本	Coutnry	JAPAN
言語	日本語	Language	JAPANESE
原作	－	Original Story	－
監督	滝田洋二郎	Director	Yojiro TAKITA
脚本	小山薫堂	Screenplay	Kundo KOYAMA
キャスト	本木雅弘広末涼子余貴美子吉行和子笹野高史山﨑努	Cast	Masahiro MOTOKI Ryoko HIROSUE Kimiko YO Takashi SASANO Tsutomu YAMAZAKI

©2008 映画「おくりびと」製作委員会		©2008 Departures Film Partners

受賞

第81回アカデミー賞最優秀外国語映画賞ほか国内・外103冠受賞

FILM AWARDS

81st Academy Award BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM, and 103 national and international prizes
Box office in Japan : 6.4 billion yen

あらすじ

チェロ奏者・小林大悟は所属オーケストラの解散を機に、ウェブデザイナーの妻の美香を連れて故郷の山形に戻る。大悟は、新聞の求人欄でみつけた“旅のお手伝い”をする会社へ面接に行く。女性事務員と社長だけの会社は、遺体を拭き清め、化粧を施して棺に納める納棺の業務を行なっていた。高額な給料に惹かれ、見習として入社した大悟は、徐々に納棺師としての仕事に価値を感じていくが、妻は彼の仕事を嫌がって家を出る。妊娠が判ったため戻ってきた妻は納棺の仕事を目の当たりにして、その価値を理解する。そんなとき、幼かった頃に家を出た父の訃報が舞い込む。恨みを乗り越え、大悟は父の納棺を担当する。

STORY

Kobayashi Daigo is a cellist, but when his orchestra is dissolved he returns to his hometown in Yamagata prefecture with Mika, his web designer wife. He finds a classified ad for a company which provides assistance for "Departures" and goes for an interview. The company has just two people, a female clerk and the president, and the business of the company turns out to be preparation of deceased bodies for funerals by wiping them clean and putting make up on them. Nonetheless, Daigo joins the company as a trainee, attracted by a good salary, and gradually realizes the value of the job of an encoffinner. His wife, however, despises it and leaves him. When she returns due to pregnancy, she sees what the job involves at first hand and understands its value. Just then they receive news of the death of his father, who left home when he was still young. Daigo overcomes the bitter feeling towards him and takes charge of preparing the body of his father.

解説

第81回アカデミー賞外国語映画賞、第32回モントリオール世界映画祭グランプリ受賞作。遺体を美しく送り出す納棺師という職業に焦点を当て、『壬生義士伝』の滝田洋二郎が繊細に描き出す。

INTRODUCTION

The winner of the 81st Academy Awards(R) Best Foreign Language Film and the Grand Prix at the 32nd Montreal World Film Festival. Focusing on the vocation of encoffineers, who assist in sending the deceased body off to final departure with dignity, Takita Yojiro of When the Last Sword Is Drawn delicately portrays the profession. The film was a blockbuster hit pulling in over 3 billion yen in Japan.