Full awards and nominations of Departures
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Daigo Kobayashi is a young married cellist 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 ... [+]
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81th Academy Awards (2009) - Movies from 2008
- winner Best International Film
- Montreal World Film Festival 2008
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32nd Japan Academy Film Prize
- winner Best Film
- winner Best Director (Yōjirō Takita)
- winner Best Screenplay (Koyama Kundo)
- winner Best Actor (Masahiro Motoki)
- nom. Best Actress (Ryoko Hirosue)
- winner Best Supporting Actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki)
- winner Best Supporting Actress (Kimiko Yo)
- nom. Best Music (Joe Hisaishi)
- winner Best Cinematography (Takeshi Hamada)
- winner Best Lighting Direction (Hitoshi Takaya)
- nom. Best Art Direction (Fumio Ogawa)
- winner Best Sound Recording (Satoshi Ono, Osamu Onodera)
- winner Best Film Editing (Masaaki Kawashima)