Departures (Japan 2008) 131´ 28/06/2012

This film was directed by Yōjirō Takita and tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a cellist in Tokyo who loses his job when his orchestra is disbanded. This mishap makes him  move back to his hometown, Sakata, with his wife Mika (Ryōko Hirosue). There Daigo finds a job that involves preparing the dead.

It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Oscars in 2009 and the Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize. Apart from that it has received good reviews.
"Even as it gently insists on the normalcy, the inevitability, the meaningfulness of mortality, it leaves you feeling so familiar with death you may want to wash your hands and change your clothes afterward." Philip Kennicott. Washington Post. (19/06/2009).
See the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtdENmR6jKw