After Life (1998)
Wandafuru raifu (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 1h 59min
- Drama, Fantasy
- 17 Apr 1999 (Japan)
- Movie
- 7 wins & 8 nominations.
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Cast
Arata Iura | ... |
Takashi Mochizuki, counselor
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Erika Oda | ... |
Shiori Satonaka, trainee counselor
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Susumu Terajima | ... |
Satoru Kawashima, counselor
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Takashi Naitô | ... |
Takuro Sugie, counselor
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Kyôko Kagawa | ... |
Kyoko Watanabe, Ichiro's Wife
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Kei Tani | ... |
Kennosuke Nakamura, boss
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Taketoshi Naitô | ... |
Ichiro Watanabe, who cannot choose his favourite experience
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Tôru Yuri | ... |
Gisuke Shoda, who talks about sex
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Yûsuke Iseya | ... |
Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience
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Sayaka Yoshino | ... |
Kana Yoshino, talks about Disneyland
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Kazuko Shirakawa | ... |
Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man
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Kôtarô Shiga | ... |
Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past
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Hisako Hara | ... |
Kiyo Nishimura, old lady who loves cherry blossoms
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Sadao Abe | ... |
Ichiro (as young man)
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Natsuo Ishidô | ... |
Kyoko Watanabe as a young woman
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Tomomi Hiraiwa | ... |
Receptionist
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Tae Kimura | ... |
Dining Hall Worker
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Yasuhiro Kasamatsu |
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Akio Yokoyama | ... |
Security Guard
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Miyako Yamaguchi | ... |
Dining Hall Worker
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Kazuji Araki | ... |
Dead Man
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Kunio Endo | ... |
Dead Man
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Michi Okuma | ... |
Dead Woman
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Shinichiro Okuno | ... |
Dead Man
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Yoshitaka Kaneko | ... |
Dead Man
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Keigyoku Kane | ... |
Dead Man
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Yone Kori | ... |
Dead Woman
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Masaaki Kojima | ... |
Dead Man
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Terumasa Takahashi | ... |
Dead Man
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Chie Takamatsu | ... |
Dead Woman
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Kimiko Tatara | ... |
Dead Woman
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Toshio Nomoto | ... |
Dead Man
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Nanae Hirakawa | ... |
Dead Woman
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Taro Bundo | ... |
Dead Man
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Naruki Matsukawa |
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Directed by
Kore-eda Hirokazu | ... | (as Hirokazu Koreeda) |
Written by
Kore-eda Hirokazu | ... | (writer) (as Hirokazu Koreeda) |
Produced by
Masayuki Akieda | ... | producer |
Shiho Satô | ... | producer (as Shiho Sato) |
Yutaka Shigenobu | ... | executive producer |
Music by
Yasuhiro Kasamatsu |
Cinematography by
Masayoshi Sukita | ||
Yutaka Yamazaki |
Editing by
Kore-eda Hirokazu | ... | (as Hirokazu Koreeda) |
Production Design by
Hideo Gunji | ||
Toshihiro Isomi |
Sound Department
Osamu Takizawa | ... | sound designer / sound recordist |
Camera and Electrical Department
Yuzuru Satô | ... | gaffer (as Yuzuru Sato) |
Additional Crew
Linda Hoaglund | ... | subtitler: English |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Connaissance du Cinéma (1999) (France) (theatrical)
- De Filmfreak (1999) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Peripher Film (1999) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Primer Plano Film Group (1999) (Argentina) (theatrical)
- trigon-film (2000) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
- Argentina Video Home (1999) (Argentina) (VHS)
- Artistic License (1999) (United States) (subtitled)
- Astro Distribution (2007) (Germany) (DVD)
- ICA Projects (1999) (United Kingdom)
- Mongrel Media (Canada)
- Soda Pictures (2005) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- The Criterion Channel (2024) (United States) (tv) (streaming)
- Yleisradio (YLE) (2022) (Finland) (tv) (and Internet)
- trigon-film (2005) (Switzerland) (DVD) (subtitled)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
A small mid-20th century social-service-style office is a waystation for the souls of the recently deceased, where they are processed before entering their personal heaven - a single happy memory re-experienced for eternity. Every Monday, a new group of recently deceased people check in, and the "social workers" in the lodge explain their situation. Once the newly-dead have identified their happiest memories, workers design and replicate each person's chosen memory, which is staged and filmed. At the end of the week, the recently deceased watch the films of their recreated happiest memories in a screening room. As soon as each person sees his or her own memory, he or she vanishes to whatever state of existence lies beyond and takes only that single memory with them. The story pays most attention to two of the "counselors," Takashi (Arata) and Shiori (Oda). Takashi has been assigned to help an old man, Ichiro (played by Naito Taketoshi), select his memory. Reviewing videotape of Ichiro's life, Takashi learns that Ichiro had married Takashi's former fiancée after Takashi had been killed during World War II. Takashi has Ichiro assigned to another counselor, but is still troubled by his memories, causing both him and his quasi-romantic interest Shiori to re-examine their (after-) lives. Written by Gaafar |
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Taglines | What is the one memory you would take with you? See more » |
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Parents Guide | View content advisory » |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | Much of the action in After Life is shown as interviews conducted with the recently deceased regarding their lives. Some of these interviews were scripted, but many were done impromptu, with real people (not actors) reminiscing about their own lives. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Notting Hill/Besieged/Trekkies/Tea with Mussolini/After Life (1999). See more » |
Quotes |
Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past:
Say I choose a memory, from when I was eight or ten years old. Then I'll only remember how I felt back then? I'll be able to forget everything else? Really? You can forget? Well, then that really is heaven. See more » |