DVD & Blu-ray: AFTER LIFE (1998) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: The international breakthrough by Hirokazu Kore-eda that asks, If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? 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.

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Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Starring: Arata Iura, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Runtime: 119 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Japanese

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: August 10, 2021

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Region: Region A/1

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Audio commentary featuring film scholar Linda Ehrlich
New interviews with Kore-eda, stills photographer–cinematographer Masayoshi Sukita, and cinematographer Yutaka Yamazaki
Deleted scenes
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen