Title:
Wandafuru raifu = After life
Alternate title:
After life
Xia yi zhan, tian guo
Author:
Series:
Series Number:
1089.
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 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.
Audience:
Rating: Not rated.
General Note:
Title and credits from screen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Features: New 2K digital restoration, approved by writer-director Horokazu Kore-eda; New audio commentary featuring film scholar Linda C. Ehrlich; New interviews with Kore-eda and cinematographers Masayoshi Sukita and Yutaka Yamazaki; Deleted scenes; Trailer; An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Edition:
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12)
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Publication Date:
2021
1998
ISBN:
9781681438665
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Call Number:
DVD AFTERLIFE