Maborosi

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

1995 / 110min / 35mm

An elegantly photographed, enormously poignant story of mourning and reawakening from master dramatist Kore-eda, already showing the extraordinary delicacy that defines his body of work in this, his feature filmmaking debut. Young mother Yumiko (Makiko Esumi) has recently remarried and relocated to a village on the coast of the Sea of Japan with her spouse and son, but she remains haunted by the tragic death of her first husband five years earlier, struggling to move past her grief through communing with the natural beauty that surrounds her. “Breathtaking… exquisitely beautiful… astonishing visual intensity and emotional depth.” —The New York Times

Distributor: Kino Lorber

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