Monday, May 25, 2009

This event is sold out. If you have already registered and cannot attend, please contact us at 415.986.4383 so that we may offer your seat to someone on the waiting list.

The Japan Society, in cooperation with Regent Releasing and Here!, invites you to an advance preview screening of the 2008 Academy Award® winning Best Foreign Language Film, Departures, by writer-director Yojiro Takita.

Departures centers on Daigo (Masahiro Motoki), a cellist who becomes jobless when his symphony orchestra disbands. Giving up his dream of being a performer, Daigo moves back to his late mother’s home with wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue) to reevaluate his life. After accepting a position at a company specializing in “encoffinments”—the ancient Japanese art of preparing a corpse for cremation in front of the bereaved—Daigo discovers a renewed joy for living through learning to care for the grieving and the deceased and unwittingly begins a journey of reconciliation with his past.

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Time:
Monday, May 25, 2009
Pick-up Tickets: 6:15 pm
Film: 7:00 pm

Location:
Sundance Kabuki Cinemas
1881 Post Street @ Fillmore
San Francisco, CA
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Cost:
Free for Japan Society members while supply lasts.

To receive your ticket, you must check in with Japan Society staff outside the Kabuki’s main entrance by 6:15 pm. Please look for the Japan Society sign to pick up your ticket.

Presented by Regent Releasing and Here! in conjunction with the Japan Society of Northern California.