AFTER LIFE

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• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: From the award-winilling director Kore-eda Hirokazu (Maborosi) comes a remarkably touching film exploring the profound human need to discover meaning in everyday life.; ; Many films have offered insight into the unexplainable realm of the after life. In Kore-eda’s thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between heaven and Earth.; ; ; With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory from their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life’s worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task. If Heaven is only a single memory from your life, as Kore-eda suggests, which memory would you chose?;
• Cast: Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa, Kei Tani, Taketoshi Naitô, Toru Yuri, Yusuke Iseya, Sayaka Yoshino, Kazuko Shirakawa, Kotaro Shiga, Hisako Hara, Sadao Abe, Natsuo Ishido, Tomomi Hiraiwa, Tae Kimura, Akio Yokoyama, Miyako Yamaguchi, Kazuji Araki, Kunio Endo, Michi Okuma, Shinichiro Okuno, Yoshitaka Kaneko, Keigyoku Kane, Yone Kori, Masaaki Kojima, Terumasa Takahashi, Chie Takamatsu, Kimiko Tatara, Toshio Nomoto, Nanae Hirakawa, Taro Bundo, Hirokazu Koreeda
• Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Artistic License Films, New Yorker Video
• Media Format: Movie