Wandafuru raifu = After life = Xia yi zhan, tian guo
(DVD)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.

Widescreen (1.66:1).

Features: New 2K digital restoration, approved by writer-director Horokazu Kore-eda; New audio commentary featuring film scholar Linda C. Ehrlich; New interviews with Kore-eda and cinematographers Masayoshi Sukita and Yutaka Yamazaki; Deleted scenes; Trailer; An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Producers, Shiho Sato, Masayuki Akieda ; directors of photography, Yutaka Yamazaki, Masayoshi Sukita ; original music, Yasuhiro Kasamatsu.

Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitō, Kei Tani, Toru Yuri, Kazoko Shirakawa.

"If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life's high-concept premise is grounded in Kore-eda's documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience -- its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets -- and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time"--Container.

DVD format, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby monaural.

Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.