Masahiro Motoki plays Daigo Kobayashi, a cellist who becomes unemployed after his orchestra disbands. He gives up the cello and moves back home with his wife in hope of finding a new line of work. The couple return to Daigos childhood home, untouched after his mother passed away two years prior and his father, his father, who owned a Coffee Shop left his family to start a new life with his waitress.

He easily lands the job of a NK Agent in Departures, which he expects to be a Travel Agency turns out to be a n?kan (encoffinment) agency, where they prepare the recently deceased for their departure. Read More