Maborosi (Maboroshi no hikari) (1995)

7.9	Rating (53 ratings)
7.5	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Hirokazu Koreeda

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Makiko Esumi
Yumiko

Takashi Naitô
Tamio

Tadanobu Asano
Ikuo

Midori Kiuchi
Michiko

Akira Emoto
Yoshihiro

Mutsuko Sakura
Tomeno

Hidekazu Akai
Master

Minori Terada
Detective

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9 years, 8 months ago at Aug 20 16:34

Kenji

1 vote

The debut feature of Kore-eda (one-time documentarist and director of the widely admired “Afterlife” and “Nobody Knows”) is one of a small, precious number of films for which i have felt lovesick. Maborosi’s story is superficially simple: affected by the death of her grandmother and her husband’s inexplicable suicide, a young Osaka woman starts new married life, along with her son, in ... read more

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A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.

Release date: 9 December 1995
UPC: 717119665043

Tags: Japan (5), (3), 1990s (2), Suicide (1), 1995 (1), Baseball (1), Poverty (1), Based On True Story (1), Spiritual Cinema (1), Sort (1), SnP (1), East Asia (1)

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" Date: 12/27/2020 Viewed: Youtube First Viewing Note: So far, I only have seen a few movies from Hirokazu Kore-eda and he has already become a favorite director of mine. Maborosi is yet another hit from Hirokazu Kore-ed for me because this movie was fantastic. This movie is both beautiful and depressing at the same time. You can tell that Hirokazu Kore-eda was inspired by Yasujiro Ozu when making this movie because this movie has a similar vibe to his other movies such as Late Spring (1949), "