Tsutomu Yamazaki News

I am a big fan of Juzo Itamia s entertaining Tampopo and Ia ve heard a lot about A Taxing Woman .

In DEPARTURES, Daigo Kobayashi, MASAHIRO MOTOKI, is married to Mika, RYOKO HIROSUE, and plays cello in a privately owned Tokyo orchestra.

Daigo learns the tricks of the funeral trade from Ikuei . Departures is an uplifting Japanese drama about the ways in which we deal with the deaths of our loved ones.

Winner of this year's foreign-film Oscar, Departures veers from comedy to drama, occasionally taking a rest stop on the shoulder of sentiment.

Departures : A must for Bernie Madoff's prison Netflix queue. Details: Departures Starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.

Daigo Kobayashi is a young cellist when we meet him and his pretty and devoted wife Mika .

Out-of-work classical musician Daigo Kobayashi learns the art of preparing dead bodies from Mr.

Starring Masahiro Motoki and Tsutomu Yamazaki. In Japanese with English subtitles.

CHENNAI: Apparao Galleries is screening films of popular Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, every Friday at 7 pm throughout the month.

A surprise winner of this year's foreign-language Oscar, beating out front-runners "Waltz With Bashir" and "The Class," the Japanese dramedy "Departures" has its moments but is ultimately overlong and too melodramatic.

Regent Releasing DON'T CUT CORNERS: After losing his job as a cellist, Daigo goes to work as a "casketer" for Sasaki in the Oscar-winning "Departures." Awards watchers predicted the animated Israeli docudrama "Waltz With Bashir" would take home the best foreign language film Oscar this year.

A sad-sack musician becomes apprentice to an undertaker . Details: Rated PG-13. Opens Friday at San Francisco theaters.