The Japanese movie titled The Funeral and directed by Juzo Itami was released in 1984 and is categorized as drama.
Key cast members of The Funeral include Tsutomu Yamazaki
Nobuko Miyamoto.
The plot of The Funeral is: Shokichi Amamiya (Hideji Otaki) is a difficult 69-year-old man, married to Kikue (Kin Sugai). He dies suddenly of a heart attack, and it falls to his daughter Chizuko (Nobuko Miyamoto) and son-in-law Wabisuke Inoue (Tsutomu Yamazaki) to organize the funeral at their house.
Among other things, the family have to choose a coffin, hire a priest, hold a wake, learn formal funeral etiquette and hold the service itself.
During the three days of preparation, various tensions within the family are hinted at, such as resentment of a rich but stingy uncle, Inoue's affair with a younger woman, and possibly an affair the dead man himself had with a female gateball player.
After the service, the long suffering wife delivers a dignified speech to the family regretting that the hospital would not let her be with her husband as he died..
