I saw a very good movie, an academy award winning Japanese film (2009 Best Foreign Language Film of the Year), Departures, or Okuribito as it is called in Japan. It is very good, I highly recommend it.
First, it would be amiss to not mention the main character’s name is Daigo. I used to tell people Daigo is not very common name, and I told that to my wife when first I met her, then, the first Japanese person she saw on the TV (I think it was one of Olympic event) was another Daigo. Anyway, it was very good movie, but why can’t Japanese men tell their wives the truths? The main character, Daigo, did not tell his wife that he purchased $180,000 cello, and he wouldn’t tell her what his job was. I had the same reaction when I saw 1996 Japanese film Shall We Dance, (BTW, don’t bother with American remake with J-Lo and Richard Gere) when the main character wouldn’t tell his wife that he is taking dance lesson. That was driving me crazy. Perhaps the same reason Daisuke wouldn’t tell his team about his injury….
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