Shinmon Aoki

Shinmon Aoki
Born	April 11, 1937 Japan
Occupation	Writer, poet
Genre	Fiction

Shinmon Aoki (Japanese: 青木新門; born April 11, 1937) is a Japanese writer and poet. He is best known for his memoirs Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician,^[1] 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 made into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, Departures, by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.^[2]

References

1. Green, Ronald (December 4, 2013). Buddhism Goes to the Movies: Introduction to Buddhist Thought and Practice. Routledge. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-135-01994-5.
2. Ebert, Roger (December 14, 2010). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011. Andrews McMeel. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-7407-9769-9.