A modest lodge receives the souls of the recently deceased, enabling them to create their personal heaven — a single happy memory re-experienced for eternity. A new week’s intake brings challenges and epiphanies for the lodge’s staff, in this early gem from the director of Our Little Sister and Shoplifters.
Japanese with subtitles
1998 | Dir Hirokazu Koreeda | 118min | Japan
“by fashioning a story of death and memory, (Koreeda) has slyly delivered a movie that reaffirms life – and the magic of movies” – Ruby Rich, New York Times