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Bookmark this pageAfterlife (1998)
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Movie review
From Time Out London
22 assorted, deceased individuals check into a former rural school serving as a halfway house where they are allowed a week to trawl through their memories and settle on a defining moment of happiness which, recreated on film, will become their private heaven. A simple, even slightly obvious idea, perhaps, but the execution is anything but hackneyed or unsophisticated.Author:
Time Out London Issue 1804: March 16-23 2005
Cast & crew
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast: Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô
Rated: PG
Duration: 118 mins
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