Masahiro Motoki and Tsutomu Yamazaki in Departures
Yojiro Takita’s Departures, Japan’s Oscar winner for best foreign language film, is a likable enough story rooted in some fascinating raw material, but it is marred by ham handed voiceover, exaggerated sentimentality, odd jags of black humor and sappy montages that would feel at home in a CD commercial [...]

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Here’s the trailer for Departures, this year’s winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Looks like a sentimental crowd pleaser (which Oscar seems to favor) and that could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your perspective.
I’ll be seeing it next week and I’ll let you know how it goes.
Departures [...]

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