Departures/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: When Daigo.
 * When the encoffiners' makeup skills "bring back" the deceased one last time.
 * Nausea Fuel: Daigo's first corpse, who isn't so much a "body" as a "liquefied mass."
 * So Okay It's Average / It's Populist, It Should Suck: Many were surprised Departures won considering it had zero hype and a fairly conventional story (as opposed to something very dramatic or very stylized)
 * Tear Jerker: And how!
 * Values Dissonance: Averted in that Western audiences would be even more sympathetic towards the lead character and disgusted at his wife and neighbors freaking out at a nice man doing a good job that seems at worst a bit creepy in the way an undertaker or coroner may be regarded.
 * His job isn't just creepy, it's unclean and contaminating, something the Burakumin - the Japanese equivalent of India's "untouchables" - do, and for a "normal" person like Daigo to do this is very Squicky for everyone (except the Cool Old Guy ).
 * Values Dissonance: Averted in that Western audiences would be even more sympathetic towards the lead character and disgusted at his wife and neighbors freaking out at a nice man doing a good job that seems at worst a bit creepy in the way an undertaker or coroner may be regarded.
 * His job isn't just creepy, it's unclean and contaminating, something the Burakumin - the Japanese equivalent of India's "untouchables" - do, and for a "normal" person like Daigo to do this is very Squicky for everyone (except the Cool Old Guy ).