Japan
Feature Film | Fantasy-Drama | Japanese | 1h58m
Original Title: ワンダフルライフ | aka: Wandafuru raifu
Dir: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Scr: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Ph: Yamasaki Yutaka & Sukita Masayoshi | Prod: Sato Shiho | Mus: Kasamatsu Yasuhiro | Ed: Kore-eda Hirokazu | PD: Gunji Hideo & Isomi Toshihiro
Cast: Arata, Oda Erika, Terajima Susumu, Naito Takashi, Kagawa Kyōko, Tani Kei, Naito Taketoshi, Yuri Toru, Iseya Yūsuke, Yoshino Sayaka, Shirakawa Kazuko, Shiga Kotaro, Hara Hisako
With a series of interviews, workers at an afterlife sorting station help the recently deceased to pick just one memory from their lives, which will be recreated for them on film, allowing them to take it with them into eternity, in Kore-eda’s decidedly low-key, yet terribly affecting, fantasy-drama. Mixing scripted footage with candid interviews that elicited real memories, After Life beautifully explores all the big questions about love, life, and death. Exquisite. Essential Viewing
