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After Life

Original title: Wandafuru raifu
  • 19981998
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 59m
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7.6/10
13K
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After Life (1998)
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After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
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    • Kore-eda Hirokazu
    • Kore-eda Hirokazu
  • Stars
    • Arata Iura
    • Erika Oda
    • Susumu Terajima
    • Kore-eda Hirokazu
    • Kore-eda Hirokazu
  • Stars
    • Arata Iura
    • Erika Oda
    • Susumu Terajima
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    • 121User reviews
    • 55Critic reviews
    • 91Metascore
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    Arata Iura
    • Takashi Mochizuki, counselor
    • (as Arata)
    Erika Oda
    • Shiori Satonaka, trainee counselor
    Susumu Terajima
    Susumu Terajima
    • Satoru Kawashima, counselor
    Takashi Naitô
    • Takuro Sugie, counselor
    Kyôko Kagawa
    Kyôko Kagawa
    • Kyoko Watanabe, Ichiro's Wife
    Kei Tani
    • Kennosuke Nakamura, boss
    Taketoshi Naitô
    Taketoshi Naitô
    • Ichiro Watanabe, who cannot choose his favourite experience
    Tôru Yuri
    • Gisuke Shoda, who talks about sex
    Yûsuke Iseya
    Yûsuke Iseya
    • Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience
    Sayaka Yoshino
    • Kana Yoshino, talks about Disneyland
    Kazuko Shirakawa
    • Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man
    Kôtarô Shiga
    • Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past
    Hisako Hara
    • Kiyo Nishimura, old lady who loves cherry blossoms
    Sadao Abe
    • Ichiro (as young man)
    Natsuo Ishidô
    • Kyoko Watanabe as a young woman
    Tomomi Hiraiwa
    • Receptionist
    Tae Kimura
    • Dining Hall Worker
    Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
      • Kore-eda Hirokazu
      • Kore-eda Hirokazu
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    • Trivia
      Much of the action in After Life is shown as interviews conducted with the recently deceased regarding their lives. Some of these interviews were scripted, but many were done impromptu, with real people (not actors) reminiscing about their own lives.
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      Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past: Say I choose a memory, from when I was eight or ten years old. Then I'll only remember how I felt back then? I'll be able to forget everything else? Really? You can forget? Well, then that really is heaven.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Notting Hill/Besieged/Trekkies/Tea with Mussolini/After Life (1999)

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    7/10
    The Best Moment of Our Lives
    Every Monday morning, a team of advisors welcome in a facility a group of people that has just died with the mission of helping each one of them to select their best memory that will last for the eternity in the first three days. On Thursday, filmmakers begin to recreate the selected memory, and in the end of the week they screen it in a movie theater and he or she moves to Heaven.

    I bought "Wandâfuru Raifu", or "After Life" on DVD, since I was very intrigued with the summary on its cover. I saw this low budget movie spoken in Japanese with English subtitles and I found the story very original and provocative. The premise of rebuilding eternity along a week, like God created Earth, and Heaven be a projection of a movie of the best memory one could have, is fantastic. In spite of having unexplained points, like for example the need itself of lasting with only one single memory, and inconsistencies, like why the need of shooting the memory, if the staff can bring videotapes of the entire life, what matters is the originality of this unique movie. One point that has always impressed me in cinema is the fact the actors and actresses last forever in the eyes of the audiences along generations. In this movie, each one of us has the chance to be an actor or actress, and write our own screenplay. Further, I personally recalled many good moments of my life just because of the storyline of this movie, and I found how difficult it could be to select only one good moment of my life to last forever. My vote is seven.

    Title (Brazil): "Depois da Vida" ("After Life")
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      • April 17, 1999 (Japan)
      • Japan
      • Japanese
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      • Engine Film
      • Sputnik Productions
      • TV Man Union
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    • 1 hour 59 minutes
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