Based on the novel The Diary of a Coffin By Japanese writer Shinmon Aoki, the film was released in Japan in 2008 with the co-stars masahiro Takita, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Ryoko Hiromi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, and Takashi Sasano.
The film tells the life of a Japanese mortician, and the film observes various deaths from the perspective of a novice mortician and gazes at the loving people around the deceased. The mortician, also known as the funeral master, restores the undead state of the deceased. Renovate the face and body, and restore the complete face and body as much as possible. It can also be called the makeup of the deceased, which is included in the profession of the coffin. It is a respectable profession, with respect for the deceased and reverence for life and death!
The film has won the highest award at the 32nd Montreal International Film Festival in Canada, the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 81st Academy Awards, and the Best Asian Film at the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards. Recently, the 4K restored version of "Entering the Mortician" was released in Chinese mainland, and interested students can go to see it, and they will definitely have a new understanding after wanting to see it!
The movie "Entering the Mortician" warmly shows an unpopular profession that ordinary people are afraid of on the big screen. The protagonist, his wife, and the president are slightly witty in their daily lives, and they have the warmth and thinking of life; at the performance level, Masahiro Motogi's sincerity and nature, Ryoko Hiromi's gentle consideration, Yamazaki's smile to see life, each actor has eaten through his own role, presenting a performance that touches people's hearts, warm and full of moving emotions. Soundtrack master Hisaishi composed the background music of the film, using the thick rhythm of the cello as the mainstay, breaking the heaviness brought by death, and the music was like a torrent of the protagonist's heart, healing the hearts of countless audiences.
The movie "The Mortician" uses a unique perspective to tell the flesh and blood affection, the love of husband and wife, and the indifferent view of life and death, so that everyone will have different feelings when watching this movie at different ages. The film restores the details of everyone's mentality at the time of farewell through the stories experienced by the male protagonist Daigo Kobayashi, and vividly expresses the bondage and affection between the family. The audience was not only touched by the story of the mortician and every departed person in the film, but also felt the thickness of life. In the bland plot development, a lot of philosophy is revealed, and we also work with the protagonist of this movie in the face of various deaths, and finally feel the true meaning of life, which is also the resonance between the film and the audience, and the tone of moving people with emotion is always immortal.
"Death" is a unique topic for humans. With the concept of "death", human beings realized what "life" is. And the funeral rite may be the door that connects death and life. Some people say that funerals are held for living people, but perhaps funerals are not a one-sided farewell between the living and the dead, but also a relationship between the deceased and the living, through the funeral to end, so that the deceased can end all the worries in this world.