After life = Wandafuru raifu

Author

Hirokazu Koreeda

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Languages

In Japanese, with English subtitles.

Performers

Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitō, Kei Tani, Tōru Yuri.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life's high-concept premise is grounded in Kore-eda's documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience--its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets--and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time"--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.

Special features: New 2K digital restoration, approved by writer-director Horokazu Kore-eda ; new audio commentary featuring film scholar Linda C. Ehrlich ; new interviews with Kore-eda and cinematographers Masayoshi Sukita and Yutaka Yamazaki ; deleted scenes ; trailer.