After Life / Wandafuru raifu (1998) [The Criterion Collection, Spine #1089]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1796x1080, ~ 4.0 Mbps | 1hr 59mn | 3.80 GB
Japanese (日本語): AC3, 1 ch, 448 kbps \ English (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Fantasy | Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore‑eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience—its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets—and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.