Please join us for the showing of the movie, Departures. This award winning film follows a musician’s profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.

Loosely based on Coffinman, a memoir by Shinmon Aoki, the film follows a young man who returns to his hometown after a failed career as a cellist and stumbles across work as a nōkanshi—a traditional Japanese ritual mortician.