A beautiful meditation on the power and beauty of memories, this second feature from Hirokazu Kore-eda (MABOROSI) is more about a particular pause between life and eternity than about eternity itself. Several harried counselors report to work on a
Monday at an oddly archaic institution. Their job: shepherding a group of the recently deceased through the process of selecting a single memory to carry for eternity. At the end of the week, the guides turn filmmakers and recreate each memory in a film. The handsome, if grave, guide Mochizuki
(Arata) is assigned to Watanabe (Naito Taketoshi) a particularly boring salaryman filled with ambivalence about his life. The oth...
Released:
1999
Rated:
NR
Length:
118 mins