The acting is quite deft, if extremely broad, but screenwriter Kundo Koyama seesaws uncertainly between jokes and grief.
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This review of Departures (2008) was written by Michael Phillips and published by Chicago Tribune on 01 Nov 2014.
Departures has generally received very positive reviews.
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