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After Life
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction.
- Foreign films.
- Drama.
- Motion pictures.
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1998
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. AFTER LIFE's high-concept premise is grounded in Kore eda's documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience-its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets-and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time
- Participant:
- Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1998
- Publisher Number:
- 14353085 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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