Address: Yojiro Takita. Original title: Departures (The sender)
Country: Japan.
Year: 2008.
Duration: 131 min.
Genre: Drama.
Interpretación: Masahiro Motoki (Daigo Kobayashi), Ryoko Hirosue (Mika Kobayashi), Tsutomu Yamazaki (Shou Sasaki), Tetta Sugimoto, Kimiko Yo ( Yuriko), Takashi Sasano (Shokichi), Kazuko Yoshiyuki (Tsuyako).
Guion: Kunda Koyama.
Production: Toshiaki Nakazawa and Toshihisa Watai.
Music: Joe Hisaishi.
Photo: Takeshi Hamada.
Assembly: Akimasa Kawashima.
production designer Fumio Ogawa.
Release in Spain: July 3, 2009.
Synopsis
Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), has just achieved the dream of his life, entering as a cellist in an orchestra, so what you buy an instrument that is a height. Unfortunately, after the first concert the band dissolves and Daigo stays with his cello, your mortgage and no income. Just wandering the streets without work and without much hope. Therefore, he decided to return to his hometown with his wife (Ryoko Hirosue). They get a job that will make you rethink life has taken so far and the values \u200b\u200band concepts of contemporary society.
Sometimes I go to the movies and you get a very pleasant surprise. That's what happens with Bachelor, one of the easiest films, tender and touching of last season. In Bachelor we have a drama content with touches of humor, where the hero, Daigo, we're driving down a road which is showing us how it is done by tasks that nobody wants to do in today's society (even he does not at first) and how through them end up reunited with a painful past, theirs.
Bachelor speaks of honor, respect, the moral duty to take care of you, of the greatest admiration, loyalty extreme ... But above all, coping with a trauma or a disadvantage in life, the agility of change, the conviction of self worth ... all wrapped in a no topical theme of cinema, the transition from life to death. In short, a resounding defense of enjoyment of life, through the analysis of what it means death.
A highlight two things: a perfect sound track, which combines Western music with traditional Japanese sounds, and the interpretation of virtually the entire cast, but especially Tsutomu Yamazaki, who represents the head of Daigo: sober and puzzling, therefore, can show a man at times mysterious, at times endearing.
One more example of the misery in which the film moves today: if we have to see it is because he won the Academy Award the best foreign language film in 2009. Yet its distribution has been poor, confined to major English cities. As an art as the film is in the hands of an industry where only the numbers is what counts, and the vast majority of the screens are reserved for mediocre products and very profitable in the short term, we have increasingly more difficult to overlook the more or less exotic cultures that shows the cultural and creative wealth that fuels our imagination.
