In Hirokazu Kore’eda’s 1998 film After Life, the dead discover that there is no heaven or hell, only their own past. The deceased, finding themselves in a kind of cosmic waystation, have just one task during an allotted week in limbo: Choose one memory, [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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