Departures

Okuribito is a movie starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki. A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.