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YMMV: Departures
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- Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: When Daigo prepares the body of his father, sees the "message stone" and finally remembers his face.
- When the encoffiners' makeup skills "bring back" the deceased one last time.
- When the Wholesome Crossdresser's father allows his child to be prepared as a girl.
- When Daigo's old friend, the son of the woman who ran the bath house, finally gets that Daigo's job isn't horrible but supremely compassionate.
- Nausea Fuel: Daigo's first corpse, who isn't so much a "body" as a "liquefied mass."
- So Okay It's Average / It's Populist, It Should Suck: Many were surprised Departures won considering it had zero hype and a fairly conventional story (as opposed to something very dramatic or very stylized)
- Tear Jerker: And how!
- Values Dissonance: Averted in that Western audiences would be even more sympathetic towards the lead character and disgusted at his wife and neighbors freaking out at a nice man doing a good job that seems at worst a bit creepy in the way an undertaker or coroner may be regarded.
- His job isn't just creepy, it's unclean and contaminating, something the Burakumin
 - the Japanese equivalent of India's "untouchables" - do, and for a "normal" person like Daigo to do this is very Squicky for everyone (except the Cool Old Guy because he works at the crematorium).
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