Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman

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Recently retired from a company after some 40 years of service, Sunada Tomoaki, father of filmmaker Sunada Mami, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only has a few months left to live. True to his pragmatic core, Sunada sets out to accomplish a list of tasks before his final departure: playing with his grandchildren, planning his own funeral, saying “I love you” to his wife, among others. In a voice over, using words taken from her father’s diary, filmmaker Sunada speaks tenderly in first person as the elder Sunada.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2011-10-01
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Country: Japan
  • Language: Japanese
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 8
Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salaryman poster