After Life ワンダフルライフ (Wandafuru Raifu)
7 – 9:30PM
A Tribute to Donald Richie, Pt 1 concludes with Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s second feature After Life (1998). Filmed with Kore-eda’s signature humanist touch, After Life is a fantasy revolving around the recently deceased arriving at a Purgatory-like way station, where they have to choose one memory to take with them before moving on into the next world.
“A thoughtful and moving elegy.” – Donald Richie
Screening on the one-year anniversary of Richie’s passing.Introduction by Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Language and Literature, Yale University.
1998, 118 min., 35mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. With Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terashima, Tsuyoshi Naito, Kei Tani, Toru Yuri, Hisako Hara, Kazuko Shirakawa.
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