The Montreal World Film Festival on Monday gave its top jury prize to Japanese director Yojiro Takita's "Okuribito" (Departures), but saw its top audience awards go to Canadian documentary filmmaker ...

The Montreal World Film Festival gave its top jury prize to Japanese director Yojiro Takita's Okuribito (Departures), while the top audience awards went to Canadian documentary filmmaker Benoît ...

For the first time a Japanese movie, Okuribito (or Departures), has been awarded the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, over the French “The Class” and the Israeli animated documentary “Waltz With ...

A Japanese film, Okuribito, by director Yojiro Takita, has won the top prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, but a film by Quebec filmmaker Benoît Pilon was the audience favourite. Okuribito, ...

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After his orchestra disbands, young cellist Kobayashi returns to his rural Japanese hometown with his wife to start anew as a corpse preparer. Gradually, he comes to appreciate his unusual job, though ...