Synopsis
A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.
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Cast
- Makiko EsumiYumiko
- Tadanobu AsanoIkuo
- Takashi NaitoTamio
- Gohki KashiyamaYuichi
- Naomi WatanabeTomoko
- Midori KiuchiMichiko
- Akira EmotoYoshihiro
- Mutsuko SakuraTomeno
- Ren OsugiHiroshi
- Kikuko HashimotoKiyo
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
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. - 100
The New York Times
A pictorial tone poem of astonishing visual intensity and emotional depth. - 90
The A.V. Club
The 33-year-old Koreeda, who began his career in documentary, has a gift for observing life as it's lived, accumulating simple, seemingly banal scenes into an unforgettable reflection on the frustration and helplessness of trying to explain the ineffable. - 88
ReelViews
Maborosi is a worthwhile movie experience not because it ventures into virgin territory, but because its presentation is so precise and unique. - 80
Variety
This visually lush but sometimes ponderously slowfilm is a poetic saga of love and loss. - 80
The Guardian
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. - 78
Austin Chronicle
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.
