Aoki Shinmon

✶April 11, 1937

†August 6, 2022

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About their life

Shinmon Aoki was a Japanese writer and poet. He was best known for his memoirs Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician, published in 1993. 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.

Japanese writer and poet (1937-2022)

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Biography from the article Aoki Shinmon on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.