After Life

– After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity...

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.70 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 58 Minutes
Release Year:
1998
Original Name:
ワンダフルライフ
After Life (1998) - Also known as ワンダフルライフ

After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.

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After Life (1998) - Trailer

Release Date:

17 Apr 1999

Language:

Japanese

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Hirokazu Koreeda

Writer:

Hirokazu Koreeda

Main Actors:

Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô

Plot:

After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end; eternity follows. 22 dead arrive that week, assigned to three counselors and a trainee. One old man cannot find a memory, so he watches videotape of his life. Others pick their memory quickly, and the film crew gets right to work. The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori, helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. The youthful staff have a secret and feelings, too, which play out, especially Shiori's affection for her mentor, Mochizuki

Awards:

7 wins & 8 nominations.

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Artistic License

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Metacritic:
91%