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After Life

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After Life
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NR,1hr 58min
Genres:
Drama,Sci-Fi
Released:
May 12, 1999
Director:
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Distributor:
Artistic License
Starring:
Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima  ...more
Synopsis: Like his previous drama Maborosi (1995), Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life is a brilliant meditation on death and memory. The premise of After Life is simple: over the span of a week, twenty-two souls arrive at a way station (which looks like an old junior high school) between life and death, where they are asked to choose just one memory to take into the afterlife. The new arrivals include an elderly woman, a rebellious dropout, a teenage girl, and a 70-year-old war veteran. Once they have chosen ... Full Synopsis
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Keith Phipps, AMG Review
A peculiar and uniquely moving examination of life after death, Hirokazu Kore-Eda's After Life dispenses with conventional notions of punishment and reward and offers instead a version of the hereafter dominated by reflection and contemplation, death as a moment in which to come to terms with all that's come before and move on. Kore-Eda turns what could have been a parlor game exercise -- the issue ... Full Review
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