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Maborosi is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda released in USA on 1 october 1995 with Makiko Esumi
Maborosi (1995)
Maboroshi no Hikari
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Add to a movie listMaborosi, known in Japan as Maboroshi no Hikari (Japanese: 幻の光, literally "phantasmic light", but best translated as 'a trick of the light') is a 1995 Japanese film by director Hirokazu Koreeda starring Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, and Takashi Naito. It is based on a novel by Teru Miyamoto.
The film won the Golden Osella for Best Director at the 1995 Venice Film Festival.
Synopsis
Yumiko (Esumi) and Ikuo (Asano) are a young Osaka couple who have a new baby. One day Ikuo is walking along the tracks and is hit by a train. It seems like he may have done this deliberately yet there is no apparent motive. A few years pass. Yumiko agrees to an arranged marriage with a widower, Tamio (Naitō), and she and Yuichi (her son, now played by Gohki Kashima) move to Tamio's house in a rustic village on the Sea of Japan coast, shot on location in Wajima, on the Noto Peninsula (the actual location where the film was shot is Uniumachi about 5 km west from Wajima along the coast, map location: 37.400260N, 136.Actors
Makiko Esumi
(Yumiko)
Tadanobu Asano
(Ikuo)
Takashi Naitō
(Tamio)
Akira Emoto
(Yoshihiro)
Midori Kiuchi
(Michiko)
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