The Departures was a masterpiece! I cried like a baby when I saw that one. I think it won best foreign film award in the 2009 Oscars. I just looked it up, that was the year Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner, winning 8 Oscars; Heath Ledger won best supporting actor as The Joker in The Dark Knight; WALL-E was the best animated film. Overall a great year for films.