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A small mid-20th century social-service-style office is a waystation for the souls of the recently deceased, where they are processed before entering their personal heaven - a single happy memory re-experienced for eternity. Every Monday, a new group of recently deceased people check in, and the "social workers" in the lodge explain their situation. Once the newly-dead have identified their happiest memories, workers design and replicate each persons chosen memory, which is staged and filmed. At the end of the week, the recently deceased watch the films of their recreated happiest memories in a screening room. As soon as each person sees his or her own memory, he or she vanishes to whatever state of existence lies beyond and takes only that single memory with them. The story pays most attention to two of the "counselors," Takashi (Arata) and Shiori (Oda). Takashi has been assigned to help an old man, Ichiro (played by Naito Taketoshi), select his memory. Reviewing videotape of Ichiros life, Takashi learns that Ichiro had married Takashis former fiancée after Takashi had been killed during World War II. Takashi has Ichiro assigned to another counselor, but is still troubled by his memories, causing both him and his quasi-romantic interest Shiori to re-examine their (after-) lives.
After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at weeks end; eternity follows. 22 dead arrive that week, assigned to three counselors and a trainee. One old man cannot find a memory, so he watches videotape of his life. Others pick their memory quickly, and the film crew gets right to work. The trainee, 18-year-old Shiori, helps a teenage girl choose a memory other than Disneyland. The youthful staff have a secret and feelings, too, which play out, especially Shioris affection for her mentor, Mochizuki
Arata Iura
Takashi Mochizuki, counselor
Erika Oda
Shiori Satonaka, trainee counselor
Susumu Terajima
Satoru Kawashima, counselor
Takashi Naitô
Takuro Sugie, counselor
Kyôko Kagawa
Kyoko Watanabe, Ichiro's Wife
Kei Tani
Kennosuke Nakamura, boss
Taketoshi Naitô
Ichiro Watanabe, who cannot choose his favourite experience
Tôru Yuri
Gisuke Shoda, who talks about sex
Yûsuke Iseya
Yusuke Iseya, who refuses to choose his experience
Sayaka Yoshino
Kana Yoshino, talks about Disneyland
Kazuko Shirakawa
Nobuko Amano, who talks about her affair with a married man
Kôtarô Shiga
Kenji Yamamoto, who wants to forget his past
Hisako Hara
Kiyo Nishimura, old lady who loves cherry blossoms
Sadao Abe
Ichiro (as young man)
Natsuo Ishidô
Kyoko Watanabe as a young woman
Tomomi Hiraiwa
Receptionist
Tae Kimura
Dining Hall Worker
Yasuhiro Kasamatsu
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