After Life (1998)

Awards
- 7 wins & 8 nominations total

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Arata Iura

Takashi Mochizuki, counselor
(as Arata)

Erika Oda

Shiori Satonaka, trainee counselor

Susumu Terajima

Satoru Kawashima, counselor

Takashi Naitô

Takuro Sugie, counselor

Kyôko Kagawa

Kyoko Watanabe, Ichiro's Wife

Kei Tani

Kennosuke Nakamura, boss

Taketoshi Naitô

Ichiro Watanabe, who cannot choose his favourite experience

Tôru Yuri

Gisuke Shoda, who talks about sex

Yûsuke Iseya

Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience

Sayaka Yoshino

Kana Yoshino, talks about Disneyland

Kazuko Shirakawa

Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man

Kôtarô Shiga

Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past

Hisako Hara

Kiyo Nishimura, old lady who loves cherry blossoms

Sadao Abe

Ichiro (as young man)

Natsuo Ishidô

Kyoko Watanabe as a young woman

Tomomi Hiraiwa

Receptionist

Tae Kimura

Dining Hall Worker

Yasuhiro Kasamatsu

Director
- Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer
- Hirokazu Koreeda
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Much of the action in After Life is shown as interviews conducted with the recently deceased regarding their lives. Some of these interviews were scripted, but many were done impromptu, with real people (not actors) reminiscing about their own lives.

Quotes
Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past: Say I choose a memory, from when I was eight or ten years old. Then I'll only remember how I felt back then? I'll be able to forget everything else? Really? You can forget? Well, then that really is heaven.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Notting Hill/Besieged/Trekkies/Tea with Mussolini/After Life (1999)

this movie was lovely. i could relate to the people and what they chose as their memories. i wanted to find a memory but i couldn't find one i would want to spend eternity with. so this movie has actually made me want to create beautiful memories before it is too late. see this movie, it might make you evaluate your own life.