FILM REVIEW - DEPARTURES

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Winner of the 2009 Academy Awards ? for Best Foreign Language Film, DEPARTURES is an emotional, inspiring and often amusing story that has all the ingredients of the next 'Life is Beautiful'.

DEPARTURES is a beautiful and unusual love story that surprises you with bursts of humour, that moves you with its detail and its humanity ? whilst at the same time giving an extraordinary insight into a complex and unique culture. It?s a film that will make you laugh and cry - but above all, leaves you w
Montreal World FF '08 - Won Grand Prize of the Americas- Palm Springs Int. FF '09 - Won Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature - Tribeca FF '09 82nd Kinema Junpo Awards - Won Best Picture, Screenplay, Director and honors Best Actor Masahiro Motoki.
- Academy Award (R) Winner for Best Foreign Language Film 2009 - 82nd Kinema Junpo Awards - Won Best Picture, Screenplay, Director and honours Best Actor Masahiro Motoki. -Montreal World Film Festival - Grand Prize of the Americas