Maborosi

Name: Maborosi
Genre: Drama
Released: March 21, 1997
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 92

1997

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Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews

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Milestone Film & Video | Release Date: March 21, 1997 | Not Rated

Summary: 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.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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100

Stephen Holden

A pictorial tone poem of astonishing visual intensity and emotional depth. Read full review

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Edward Guthmann

Kore-eda weaves these images and others, building a multilayered fugue that contemplates death, asks if mourning ever truly ends and addresses the ephemeral nature of love, family and home. Everything we value and use to define and frame our lives, he suggests, is always at risk. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

Maborosi is one of those valuable films where you have to actively place yourself in the character's mind. There are times when we do not know what she is thinking, but we are inspired with an active sympathy. We want to understand. Well, so does she. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Maborosi is a worthwhile movie experience not because it ventures into virgin territory, but because its presentation is so precise and unique. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

It is a sombre and painful drama, enacted with reserve. There are no closeups, and it is fully one hour into the running time before we get even a medium shot of the female lead’s face. Even then there are shadows. Read full review

David Stratton

This visually lush but sometimes ponderously slowfilm is a poetic saga of love and loss. Read full review

Marc Savlov

The concept of loss, and the sorrow that shadows it, is not what you'd call an uncommon theme in films, but rarely is it handled with such uncommon eloquence as it is in Maborosi. Read full review

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BobbyPeru

Jul 18, 2017

Still might be my favorite Koreeda film. Somehow there is intimacy in every wide shot along with stunning beauty. It's a film to get lost in, to absorb completely and deeply.

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