☆DVD: Okuribito☆

"With no age limits, warrent big pay!!! Real working is a few hours. We are travel helper, NK agent!!!"

"Travel helper is... travel agency?!"

Daigo is an orchestral cellist in Tokyo, but he gives up the road to be a player because of dissolution of the orchestra, and he goes back to his home town is Yamagata Prefecture, and he finds a job of the best requirement in classified ad. At once, he goes to take an interview, but what is the waiting to him, somehow, the office is old and carries the coffin. Sasaki who is a president appears before long, he doesn't glance a paper about Daigo's history, and he looks Daigo's face, and he decides employment soon. Daigo is taken aback and asks the job is what.

Daigo says, "What is the job?" Sasaki says, "You coffin." Daigo says, "I coffin?" Sasaki answers, "Ah, this ad is misprint. It is not 'travel helper'. It is quiet 'helper for go forth.' NK is the coffin what means 'Nokan' in Japanese." Travel helper is a worker to coffin remains. Daigo panics, because he doesn't think content of the job, but he takes on the work at Sasaki's mercy, and he says to take a job relates ceremonial occasion to Mika who is Daigo's wife.

With this, Daigo begins the daily round as a new coffin's worker, and he runs about the Syonai Plain with Sasaki in late autumn...

Daigo thinks a lady is beautiful, but is not lady, and a schoolgirl is hooligan, and dead mother leaves a young daughter, and grandmother yearn to put on loose socks, and grandfather is shown to get many kissing marks and dies a peaceful death... Daigo confuses at first, but he begins to show an understanding for the job without notice while he faces each other to death and parting in various circumstances.

Daigo comes out to Mika that he doesn't work a job related ceremonial occasion, his work is to coffin remains, because Mika has been mistaken, and she goes home and leaves to say "dirty."

Daigo loses his mother before some years, and his father disappears when he is a child. He shocks to leave her who is only family for him, but he has unshakable belief for the job, and he waits her to come back.

The season changes, when the spring will come in the Syonai Plain, Daigo begins to have complaceence and pride as coffin's worker. He has various news that is Mika's pregnancy, death of his childhood friend's mother, and death of his father unknown whereabouts for 30 years!!!

How will he face to precious people's life and death close to his as coffin's worker and a husband and a person?!

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