After Life (Wandafuru raifu) DVD

Advantages: makes one think; good actors, nice atmosphere
Disadvantages: no special-effects, no soundtrack

...for this is the day after tomorrow, Wednesday. We will recreate the memory you chose, and you will take it with you into your afterlife. This will be the only thing you'll remember from your life, so take your time, but again: you can choose only o n e memory." Pretty tough task, but so begins "After Life" - a small staff interviews a group of about 20 people, asking them to decide what they'd like to reduce their whole life to. We can observe ...
...considering which memory to choose after more than 50 years. The other staff is more in the background, we follow their discussion about one's earliest memory; we learn about one of the interviewers, who waits for his little daughter to die so that he can be a father once again; the main part is about Shiori and the clients. "After Life" is what I would call a B-movie. You're into special effects? You're into movie soundtracks? In that case, this ... Read review