In the “Departures,” there are several scenes that connect to the writing of Gary Ebersole: “Death is a fact of life […] death-in-life and life-in-death” (Ebersole, 2238, 2244), especially the scene of conversation between Daigo and “the gatekeeper” on the bridge when they are observing a dead salmon (floating downstream) and the living ones (swimming downstream). The gatekeeper ( Mr. Hirata) says that life is to die and they (salmons) want to come home where they were born. The picture of death perhaps appears everywhere in the movie: images of the octopus, the salmons, white clothing of the departed, handling over the stone, eating the Puffer Roe, and specifically the coffin man. However, there is also a powerful hope, respect, and love that