Watch: ワンダフルライフ 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – A small mid-20th century social-service-style office is a waystation for the souls of the recently deceased, where they are processed before entering their personal heaven – a single happy memory re-experienced for eternity. Every Monday, a new group of recently deceased people check in, and the “social workers” in the lodge explain their situation. Once the newly-dead have identified their happiest memories, workers design and replicate each person’s chosen memory, which is staged and filmed. At the end of the week, the recently deceased watch the films of their recreated happiest memories in a screening room. As soon as each person sees his or her own memory, he or she vanishes to whatever state of existence lies beyond and takes only that single memory with them. The story pays most attention to two of the “counselors,” Takashi (Arata) and Shiori (Oda). Takashi has been assigned to help an old man, Ichiro (played by Naito Taketoshi), select his memory. Reviewing videotape of Ichiro’s life, Takashi learns that Ichiro had married Takashi’s former fiancée after Takashi had been killed during World War II. Takashi has Ichiro assigned to another counselor, but is still troubled by his memories, causing both him and his quasi-romantic interest Shiori to re-examine their (after-) lives..
Plot: On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
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Documentary like realism of people and their re-examination of their life
The movie is told in such a way that the people coming in reveals themselves in such a way that they all realize that there is a part of themselves in which it is truly good, even if it is deeply buried. The way it is filmed, as if it is a documentary, provides the cunning realism that you would not ordinarily achieve in regular film. Even at the end, we discover the true reason one of the counselor stayed around instead of moving on. Truly a touching and thought provoking film. It will make you try to think for yourself which memory you would cherish forever, even if it is single one.
A quietly stunning fantasy as documentary.
One of the few masterpieces of the year, and a rare sighting of a new talent who will surely become one of the greats. Fantasy is once again shown to be the most flexible of all forms – it can sustain profound metaphysical questions as well as examinations into Japanese history, culture and society. But, most importantly, it is the true form to examine people – their hopes and desires, fears and failures. Despite the buff hue and downbeat tone, AFTER LIFE is a comedy, it celebrates life even as it ends, even as it disappoints. It also makes the strongest case for – and against – filmmaking in recent memory.
Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 59 min (119 min), 1 hr 58 min (118 min) (Brazil), 1 hr 58 min (118 min) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Fantasy
Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer Hirokazu Koreeda
Actors Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima
Country Japan
Awards 7 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Arriflex 16 SR3 Advanced, Zeiss Super Speed and Vario-Sonnar Lenses
Laboratory Imagica Corporation, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Fuji F-125T 8530, F-500T 8570), 35 mm (final sequence)
Cinematographic Process Super 16
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji F-CP 3519) (blow-up)