32.May.11. 'ワンダフルライフ' (원더풀 라이프. After Life. 1998) by 是枝裕和.고레에다 히로카즈

 

 

 

After death, people have just one week

to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.

 

 

Storyline

 

    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

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