PRINCIPAL CAST

Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naito, Kyoko Kagawa, Kei Tani, Taketoshi Naito, Toru Yuri, Yusuke Iseya, Sayaka Yoshino, Kazuko Shirakawa, Kotaro Shiga, Hisako Hara, Sadao Abe, Natsuo Ishido

DIRECTOR

Hirokazu Koreeda

WRITER

Hirokazu Koreeda

SYNOPSIS

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.

GENRE

Foreign

RATING

Rated 0

RUN TIME

119 Minutes

STUDIO

Criterion Collection