Rent After Life (1998)
3.7 of 5 from 173 ratings
1h 58min
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- Synopsis:
- "After Life" revolves around an intriguing premise. At a half way station between heaven and earth, guides greet the newly dead. Over the next three days, they will help them sift through their memories to find the one defining moment of their lives - an old woman remembers dancing for her older brother's friends as a child; a man recollects the breeze felt on a tram ride the day before summer vacation; a young girl wants to ride the Splash Mountain at Disneyland. The chosen moment will be recreated on film and relieved for eternity.
- Actors:
- Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa, Kei Tani, Taketoshi Naitô, Tôru Yuri, Yûsuke Iseya, Sayaka Yoshino, Kazuko Shirakawa, Kôtarô Shiga, Hisako Hara, Sadao Abe, Natsuo Ishidô, Tomomi Hiraiwa, Tae Kimura, Yasuhiro Kasamatsu, Akio Yokoyama, Miyako Yamaguchi
- Directors:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Producers:
- Masayuki Akieda, Shiho Sato
- Writers:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Aka:
- Wandâfuru raifu
- Studio:
- Soda Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/08/2019
- Run Time:
- 119 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (2) of After Life
What an original film! - After Life review by PR
Why this excellent film is not more famous is beyond me, because it deserves to be a classic. It is very original, intriguing, tender, even funny. Makes you think about how our most cherished memories can be anything from the dramatic to the fleeting or even banal. A very good observation of different personality types, too. Thoroughly recommended. I have watched and enjoyed other films by this director but this must be his best.
3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Koreeda’s masterpiece - After Life review by CP Customer
Koreeda does not seem capable of making even a mediocre film. However while he ordinarily charts the territory Japanese cinema has excelled at - melodrama - this, his second feature, is something altogether different. As profound as anything produced by Beckett, and around 1000 times as warm, humane and beautiful, this is a stunning depiction of memory, loss and the meaning of life. Where existentialism of the French variety usually comes across as horror for people who don’t read newspaper, in Koreeda’s hands we have something moving - i more or less couldn’t stop crying - Precisely because it does not reduce life to waiting or to the abstract perilousness of existence - is capable of capturing the complexity of life, both its difficulties and its triumphs (both of which almost always involve other people whom we care about). Koreeda has gone on to make some wonderful and unforgettable films - all of which made me cry for several days - but for my money, he has never made anything quite as special as this.
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