One of the luxuries of the weekend, to grab a dvd off the backlog pile and go straight back to bed, Here Okuribito . Departures. a Japanese film that won the Oscar for "Best Foreign Language Film" in 2008 and the most powerful tear jerker I can remember having seen. Coming from the other side of the globe from a people renowned for their "inscrutability" I suppose this film is proof that, as humans we all have more in common than should ever divide us.

Absolutely. Thanks for the reminder. It's all too easy to forget. revenant · 2010-09-12: 14:46

cOOl! davidcardona · 2010-09-12: 20:08

great. storytaylor · 2010-09-16: 09:07

just recently read and watched several japan related works (the cove - ric o`barry; tokio - mo hayder; several romans of murakami) which alone as well as together accentuate that inscrutability by countless contradictions, yet, in spite of or because of that your statement is as valid as ever. looking forward to see departures. longimanus · 2010-09-26: 16:41