Nominated films by Yojiro Takita
Departures
When his Tokyo orchestra disbands, cellist Daigo Kobayashi returns to his home town. Looking for a job he applies to work for a travel agency but instead finds himself working for an undertaker preparing corpses for cremation.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Films by other Japanese directors
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The Twilight Samurai
Yoji Yamada
Nominated
Set in 19th century Japan Seibi Iguchi is a widower and a low ranking samurai who works as a bureaucrat. Rather than focusing on battle scenes the film shows the everyday life of a samurai as he looks after his family.