“After Life” ( Japanese: ワ ン ダ フ ル ラ イ Прекрас , “Beautiful Life”, Wandafuru raifu romaji ) is a film by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda , released in 1998 .
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| ワ ン ダ フ ル ラ イ フ | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Producer | Masayuki Akiyeda Siho Sato |
| Author script | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| In the main cast | Arata Erica Oda |
| Operator | Masayoshi Sukita Yutaka Yamazaki |
| Composer | Yasuhiro Kasamatsu |
| Film company | Engine Film, Sputnik Productions, TV Man Union |
| Duration | 118 minutes |
| Fees | 802 thousand $ (in the USA) |
| A country |  Japan |
| Tongue | Japanese |
| Year | 1998 |
| IMDb | ID 0165078 |
Content
Story
The film shows the place where people fall right after death. There they are helped to remember the most important memory for them, and the local film crew filmed it. After watching a shot of an episode, a person will forever remain in this memory of his. Those people who have not yet been able to choose a memory for themselves are working on films.
Cast
- Arata - Takashi Motizuki
- Erica Oda - Shiori Satonaka
- Susumu Terajima - Satoru Kawashima
- Takashi Naito - Takuro Sugie
- Kyoko Kagawa - Kyoko (wife of Itiro)
- Kay Tani - Kannosuke Nakamura
- Taketoshi Naito - Ichiro Watanabe
- Toru Yuri - Gisuke Shoda
- Yusuke Isei - Yusuke Isei
- Sayaka Yoshino - Kana Yoshino
- Sadao Abe - Ichiro in his youth
- Kazuko Shirakawa - Nobuko Amano
Awards and nominations
- 1998 - Golden Montgolfier Prize at the Nantes International Film Festival of the Three Continents ;
- 1998 - prize for best screenplay at the International Film Festival of Young Cinema in Turin ;
- 1998 - Prize of the International Film Critics Association (FIPRESCI) at the San Sebastian International Film Festival ;
- 1999 - prizes for the best film and best screenplay at the International Independent Film Festival in Buenos Aires ;
- 1999 - participation in the out-of-competition program of the Moscow Film Festival [1] ;
- 2000 - The Mainity Award for the best work of the artist (Toshihiro Isomi, Hideo Gunji).
Notes
- ↑ Zara Abdullaeva . Above the rafters, carpenters // Cinema Art: Journal. - 1999. - No. 12 . - ISSN 0130-6405 .
Links
- After Life on the Internet Movie Database
- "After life" (English) on the site allmovie
- After Life at Box Office Mojo
- "After life" on Afisha.ru