Masayuki Suō
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Cellist Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki, 1996's "Shall We Dance?") is in shock after the orchestra he plays for is disbanded.
An Oscar winner for best foreign-language film, this moving 2008 Japanese drama stars Masahiro Motoki (Shall We Dance?) as an unemployed young cellist in Tokyo who inherits from his mother a home in a picturesque northern mountain town.
If Shall We Dance?—in which a shy young bureaucrat liberates his inner foxtrotter on the ballroom dance floor—extended an impish invitation to Japan's tightly wound male corporate culture to unravel a bit, Departures gently nudges Japan's alienated new generation to find meaning in the performance of age-old domestic rituals.
In addition to casting the three lead female parts with Chinese rather than Japanese actresses, one of Japan's most elegant actors, Kôji Yakusho ("Shall We Dance?," "The Eel," "Cure"), has been given the part of the disfigured, bearish Nobu, while the romantic lead is played by Ken Watanabe ("The Last Samurai," "Batman Begins"), an actor with more American name recognition.
Plus, if I remember correctly, Tucci performed some terrific dance routines in Shall We Dance?
Audition is Takashi Miike's neo-Darwinian exercise in terror, playing out like a comfy companion piece to Shall We Dance?