Tags: Buddhism drama
Summary: JUZO ITAMI'S ''Funeral'' is a series of joyous contradictions. Here's a robust comedy whose subject is death, a film that is quintessentially Japanese though it recalls (without in any way imitating) the work of the quintessentially French Jean Renoir, and a tough-minded satire that is almost always sweet. The movie is about the mad scramble of the members of one affluent, bourgeois family to honor ancient traditions in a Japan that worships its high technology, fast foods, instant replays, automobiles and labor-saving appliances as much as it does its ancestors.
The Funeral
(2007)
Japan
