Departures - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Departures"

おくりびと (2008)

Timing: 2:10 (130 min)

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All about film

Video 3

Photo 20

Actors and characters

English

1:52

Italiano

2:32

Pусский

3:37

Director Yojiro Takita attended funerals to better understand the feelings of people who had lost loved ones. Tsutomu Yamazaki, who played the funeral home owner, had never participated in training sessions teaching the procedure of positioning a body in a coffin.
Masahiro Motoki had to learn to play the cello.
The filmmakers spent a considerable amount of time finding extras for the scenes in the funeral home who could lie completely still. However, the search for a body double for the bathhouse owner Tsuyako Yamashita proved fruitless. In the end, they had to use digital technology and overlay the image of actress Kazuko Siyuki onto the footage of the funeral scene.

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