Departures, the movie, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
“Looking into the employment ads, Daigo finds a promising offer [Departures Agent] at what sounds like a travel agency. Daigo applies at a quiet little office, the interview is brief. He gets the job and a cash advance. He discovers the agency handles travel, all right -- to the next world. It is an "encoffinment," or undertaking, business.” --Roger Ebert
From Wikipedia: a nōkanshi is a Japanese ritual mortician. Yukan is the ceremonial cleansing of the body prior to encoffenment. Japanese funerals are highly ritualized and generally conducted with Buddhist rites and involves a professional nōkanshi preparing dressing the dead in white.
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