| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): , sound |
| Summary |
It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest (Chishu Ryu), and cinema's most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and private hypocrisy are laid bare. Deftly weaving dark comedy with poignant family drama, THE FUNERAL is a fearless satire of the clash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finality of death, is off-limits |
| Credits |
Producer, Yasushi Tamaoki and Yutaka Okada ; cinematography by Yonezo Maeda ; edited by Akira Suzuki ; music by Joji Yuasa |
| Performer |
Juzo Itami, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto |
| Notes |
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Japan -- Drama
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Japan -- Social life and customs -- Drama
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Motion pictures, Japanese.
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Motion pictures -- Japan.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures, Japanese
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Itami, Jūzō, 1933-1997, film director, screenwriter.
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Okada, Yutaka, 1938- film producer.
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Hosogoe, Seigo, film producer
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Yamazaki, Tsutomu, 1936- actor.
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Miyamoto, Nobuko, 1945- actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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Kanopy (Firm), distributor.
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