Aoki Shinmon
Shinmon Aoki was a Japanese writer and poet. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.
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Aoki Shinmon
- Name
- Shinmon Aoki
- Born
- 11 April 1937
- Birthplace
- Nyūzen, Shimoniikawa District, Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- 6 August 2022
- Occupation
- Writer, poet
- Full name
- 青木 幸男.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Education
- Waseda University.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Shinmon Aoki was a Japanese writer and poet. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.
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• Name — Shinmon Aoki • Born — 11 April 1937 • Birthplace — Nyūzen, Shimoniikawa District, Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan • Died — 6 August 2022 • Genre — Fiction • Occupation — Writer, poet
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- 1.Green, Ronald. Buddhism Goes to the Movies: Introduction to Buddhist Thought and Practice. Routledge. 104. 4 December 2013. 978-1-135-01994-5.
- 2.Ebert, Roger. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011. Andrews McMeel. 307. 14 December 2010. 978-0-7407-9769-9.
- 3.青木新門さん死去 ８５歳、作家「納棺夫日記」. webun.jp. 7 August 2022.
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