Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Departures
Scored from 149 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After his Tokyo orchestra disbands, cellist Daigo Kobayashi returns to his rural hometown with his wife and stumbles into a job as a nokanshi, a traditional Japanese mortician who ceremonially prepares the deceased for burial. As he learns the craft under a quietly wise mentor, Daigo confronts social stigma, his wife's disapproval, and unresolved grief over the father who abandoned him as a child.
Released in 2008, Departures is a drama film.
149 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 152 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 2 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
Is Departures (2008) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 149
Cohort: Films · 2000s
