← Back

After Life

Original title: Wandafuru raifu · Turkish title: Yaşamdan Sonra

“What is the one memory you would take with you?”

1998 · 1 h 59 min
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
DramaFantasy

Cast

Arata Erika Oda Susumu Terajima

Credits

Written by: Hirokazu Koreeda

Plot

Recently dead people spend a week in a way station where they must choose a single memory to take with them into eternity.

Sinekatalog’s take

Hirokazu Kore-eda's gentle fantasy has the newly dead choosing one memory to keep forever. Quiet, simple and deeply moving, with documentary-style interviews, it is a luminous meditation on life's small joys.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (16,071 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

If you liked this

Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.