Exhibitions
Events
On display
Departures
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
free / koha
Quirky, engaging and insightful, Departures kicks off the 2020 Christchurch Japanese Film Festival.
A contemporary drama about an unemployed cellist who stumbles on a new career as a nōkanshi – a traditional Japanese ritual mortician. Directed by Yojiro Takita, and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
2008, M, 131 mins.
Doors open at 7pm. Presented by the Canterbury Film Society in cooperation with the Consulate of Japan. A koha/donation is kindly requested.