May 31, 2009

Departures wins Oscar best Foreign Film starring Ryoko Hirosue

This story happened a few months ago but just realized the movie, Departures, won the Oscar’s 2009 Best Foreign Film.  Departures is a movie directed by Yojiro Takita is about a newly unemployed ceilist accidently taking a job preparing the dead for the funerals.  The cast includes Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ryoko Hirosue.  It was the first time since 1955 that a Japanese film has won the Best Foreign language Film Oscar.  The movie swept all of Japanese Academy Awards for best picture and director.

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