After Life Movie Review 1998

A drab office building turns out to be a metaphysical doorway and those who pass through are the recently deceased. Each person is assigned a caseworker and told that they have three days to decide on one particular memory to take with them into the after life. If they cannot chose, they will be forced to remain in the limbo of the processing center until they can do so. Japanese with subtitles.

Distribution

New Yorker Video, 16 W. 61st St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023, Phone: (212)645-4600, Toll-free: 800-447-0196, Fax: (212)645-3030, Email: info@newyorkerfilms.com, URL: http://www.newyorkerfilms.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 118 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Death & the Afterlife

Screenplay

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Cast

Taketoshi Naito, Susumu Terajima, Arata, Erika Oda, Takashi Naito, Hisako Hara

Cinematography

Yutaka Yamazaki, Masayoshi Sukita

Director

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Music

Yasuhiro Kasamatsu