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After Life
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For shows listed as "Walk-Up," we always have a limited number of walk-ups available — the line forms 45 minutes before a show start time.Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Run Time: 118 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1998 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Kei Tani, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naito
Screenwriter: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Producers: Shiho Sato, Masayuki Akieda
If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore‑eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience—its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets—and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.