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Popcorn and Sake

By Joe Knowles

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, and make it a good one. In the afterlife, it turns out, you meet not your maker… return to article

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