After Life
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Hirokazu Koreeda
Erika Oda
Susumu Terajima
Taketoshi Naito
Kyoko Kagawa
Kei Tani
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A new intake of clients arrives at a grey transit station in an uncertain location. This is the gateway to the afterlife and all of the new arrivals are recently deceased. They are interviewed individually, and must select one memory to take with them into eternity; all the others will be erased. Various characters -- a teenage girl, a punk, a World War II veteran, an old lady -- are given a week to make up their minds. The memory will then be reconstructed, acted out and filmed, so the recipient will have a tape to keep. The choices range from the recent to wartime, and comment on both Japanese history and questions of love and loss.
Director
Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast
Erika Oda
Susumu Terajima
Taketoshi Naito
Kyoko Kagawa
Kei Tani
Takashi Naito
Sadao Abe
Toru Yuri
Kazuko Shirakawa
Yusuke Iseya
Hisako Hara
Sayak Yoshino
Kotaro Shiga
Natsuo Ishido
Akio Yokoyama
Tomomi Hiraiwa
Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
Kazuji Araki
Kunio Endo
Michi Okuma
Shinichiro Okuno
Yoshitaka Kaneko
Keigyoku Kin
Yone Kori
Mas-aki Kojima
Terumasa Takahashi
Chie Takamatsu
Kimiko Tatara
Toshio Nomoto
Nanae Hirakawa
Tara Bundo
Tae Kimura
Makoto Shinozaki
Miyako Yamaguchi
Tatsumasa Akieda
Minami Usui
Yuri Isomi
Goki Kashiwayana
Haruka Kodo
Toranosuke Aizawa
Tatsuo Kimura
Masaru Goto
Ichiro Tanaka
Takashi Nakagawa
Takuya Nishimura
Masayuki Hagiwara
Kazuyuki Haneda
Kaoru Mashimo
Crew
Masayuki Akieda
Shigeru Aoki
Naohiro Asano
Hideo Gunji
Toshihiro Isomi
Shuichi Kakesu
Tesuo Kaneko
Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
Teiitsu Kin
Hirokazu Koreeda
Hirokazu Koreeda
Takahiro Mitsuyoshi
Shigeki Nakamura
Yu Nakamura
Miwa Nishikawa
Mutsuki Sakai
Shiho Sato
Yuzuro Sato
Kenji Shibazaki
Yutaka Shigenobu
Osamu Shiraishi
Masayoshi Sukita
Iwao Takahshi
Hideki Takeuchi
Osamu Takizawa
Yuka Tashiro
Kazuko Yamamoto
Koichiro Yamamoto
Yutaka Yamazaki
Masahiro Yasuda
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of Best Screenplay Prize at the 1998 Turin Film Festival.
Winner of FIPRESCI Award at the 1998 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States 1999
Released in United States January 1999
Released in United States July 9, 1999
Released in United States June 1999
Released in United States May 1999
Released in United States November 1998
Released in United States on Video August 15, 2000
Released in United States September 1998
Released in United States Spring May 12, 1999
Shown at London Film Festival November 5-19, 1998.
Shown at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival May 13-20, 1999.
Shown at Newport International Film Festival June 1-6, 1999.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (main program) January 27 - February 7, 1999.
Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 17-26, 1998.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 21-31, 1999.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (New Beat of Japan) September 10-19, 1998.
Shown at Turin Film Festival (in competition) November 20-29, 1998.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Dragons and Tigers) September 26 - October 12, 1998.
Feature acting debuts for Arata and Erika Oda.
Industry Entertainment reportedly acquired the remake rights for $1,000,000.
Sophomore directorial feature for Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Dragons and Tigers) September 26 - October 12, 1998.)
Released in United States 1999 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (main program) January 27 - February 7, 1999.)
Released in United States January 1999 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 21-31, 1999.)
Released in United States May 1999 (Shown at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival May 13-20, 1999.)
Released in United States Spring May 12, 1999
Released in United States June 1999 (Shown at Newport International Film Festival June 1-6, 1999.)
Released in United States July 9, 1999 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video August 15, 2000
Released in United States September 1998 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 17-26, 1998.)
Released in United States September 1998 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (New Beat of Japan) September 10-19, 1998.)
Released in United States November 1998 (Shown at London Film Festival November 5-19, 1998.)
Released in United States November 1998 (Shown at Turin Film Festival (in competition) November 20-29, 1998.)
