After Life

If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore‑eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience – its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets – and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.

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• Film Length: 124 minutes
• Category: Movies
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• Number of Discs: 1
• Release Date: 2021-08-10
• Prebook Date: 2021-06-28
• Format: Blu-ray
• Studio: Criterion

Actors:

• Arata+Iura
• Erika+Oda
• Susumu+Terajima
• Takashi+Naito
• Kyoko+Kagawa
• Kei+Tani
• Taketoshi+Naito
• Toru+Yuri
• Yusuke+Iseya
• Sayaka+Yoshino
• Kazuko+Shirakawa
• Kotaro+Shiga
• Hisako+Hara
• Sadao+Abe
• Natsuo+Ishido

Producers:

• N/A

Directors:

• Hirokazu+Koreeda