After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end. 22 dead arrive that week, assigned to three counselors and a trainee. One old man cannot find a memory, so he watches videotapes of his life. Others pick their memory quickly, and the film crew gets right to work.
After Life is directed by one of Japan's best directors, Hirokazu Kore-eda, who gave us great films like Nobody Knows (2004) and Still Walking (2008). After Life is his brilliant view of life after death, and the complications that follows. It's like a personal investment in people's lives, and not just actors as Kore-eda wanted genuine emotions and real stories so we see many people that talks about real experiences. The film was planned a decade before being made and was directly inspired by Kore-eda's childhood memories of his grandfather's dementia, which made him aware of just how important memories are to our identity.
Genre: Drama. 1h 58min.
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