"Okuribito"

"Okuribit"
Directed by Yojiro Takita. With Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue.

Outline from Montreal Film Festival.
"Daigo kobayashi is a young married celist who played in an orchestra that has just been disbanded.
Suddenly on the street without a job and no hope for a career, Daigo decides to move back to his hometown with his wife.
There he gets a job as a nokanshi, an "encoffiner", an undertaker, the man who ceremoniously washes and dresses the dead bodies and places them in coffins, sending them onto the next world.He is a bureaucrat, a gatekeeper between life and death.
Daigo's work is despised by his wife and all the people around him, but it is through the death that he encounters daily that Daigo finally begins to understand what life is about.
Until our own "departure" arrives, we must undertake to "send off" those we have loved.This holds true for the love between married couples, parents and children, and the ties that bind relatives, friends and colleagues."

When my grandfather died, I coffined him and moved it over crematorium.
There is no keeper. Our naighbor cremated grandpa body.
That was our village funeral. Not so such a "okuribito" story.

I think it holds a funeral for living people. Not for the dead.
On my personal observation, I don't need to attend funeral.
It is different from each other.
I respect for a person, but not a dead.
I'm faceing friends, family and people involved seriously, before they die.