A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
- Director
- Writer
- Kundô Koyama(screenplay)
- Stars
- Director
- Writer
- Kundô Koyama(screenplay)
- Stars
- Won 1 Oscar
- 40 wins & 12 nominations total
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- Kundô Koyama(screenplay)
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Storyline
- Taglines
- The gift of last memories
- Genres
- Certificate
- K-12
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaMasahiro Motoki also learned how to play a cello for the earlier parts of the film.
- GoofsThe main protagonist (Masahiro Motoki) has his cheek cut during the filming scene. This is covered in subsequent scene. In the next scene both the covering and the scar of the cut is gone.
- Quotes
Mika Kobayashi: What are you doing?
Daigo Kobayashi: This one. Here.
Mika Kobayashi: What?
Daigo Kobayashi: A stone letter.
Mika Kobayashi: Stone letter?
Daigo Kobayashi: Long ago, before writing, you'd send someone a stone that suited the way you were feeling. From its weight and touch, they'd know how you felt. From a smooth stone they might get that you were happy, or from a rough one that you were worried about them.
Mika Kobayashi: Thank you.
Daigo Kobayashi: What did you feel?
Mika Kobayashi: Not telling. That's a lovely story. Who told you?
Daigo Kobayashi: My dad.
Mika Kobayashi: You mean... that big rock?
Daigo Kobayashi: Yep. I got it from him.
Mika Kobayashi: I didn't know that.
Daigo Kobayashi: He said he'd send me one every year, but that's all I ever got. That jerk!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Worst Films of 2009 (2010)
- SoundtracksSymphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 - 'Choral': IV. Presto, Allegro assai
Written by Ludwig van Beethoven
- james-macdonough
- May 22, 2021
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,498,210
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $74,945
- May 31, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $74,236,951
- Runtime
- 2h 10min
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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