 Over time , Daigo becomes comfortable with his profession as he completes a number of assignments and experiences the gratitude of the families of the deceased . Though he faces social ostracism , Daigo refuses to quit , even after Mika discovers a training DVD in which he plays a corpse and leaves him to return to her parents ' home in Tokyo . Daigo 's former classmate Yamashita ( Tetta Sugimoto ) insists that the mortician find a more respectable line of work and , until then , avoids him and his family . 
