Saturday, October 18, 2014

After Life

Japanese (subtitles)
118 minutes
1998
5 Stars




A most beautiful, intriguing, and thought-provoking movie. No fancy CGI, no adrenaline, just a beautiful movie that takes place, for the most part, in what appears to be an old school. It is a 'way-station' where the newly departed come for a week. They arrive on Monday, and are given until Wednesday to think of their happiest, most beautiful, most precious memory which is then filmed, and when they depart in a couple of days, they will have this one memory to take with them for all eternity. This is a movie I would like to own, and watch again. This movie ranks up there with Captain Abu Raed and Poetry in my book. The only problem I had was the subtitles didn't show the very bottom of the letters, but that may have been my fault, not the DVD's.

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