List of Famous people with last name Shinmon

Aoki Shinmon

First Name Aoki
Last Name Shinmon
Born on April 11, 1937
Died on August 6, 2022 (aged 85)

Shinmon Aoki is a Japanese writer and poet. He is 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.

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