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Written by Braga Lena

The film Departures is a Japanese drama directed by Yōjirō Takita and released in 2008. The film is a drama that follows the life of a mortician in a rural area in Japan.

The film is inspired by a novel entitled Coffinman, an autobiographical novel in which the writer, Shinmon Aoki recalls the period when he worked as a ritual mortician.

Both the novel and the film focus a lot on the stigma the ritual morticians were faced with.

Generally regarded as being an unclean profession, the morticians are regarded as being unclean and until one point in history, they were even forced to live separately from the rest of the population. While the times have changed, the idea that those working with dead bodies were unclean still remained in the mind