Maboroshi no hikari

1995 [JAPANESE]

Action / Drama

33
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 8738 8.7K

suicide based on novel or book arranged marriage melancholy bereavement seaside town

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Plot summary

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Director

Hirokazu Koreeda Photo
Hirokazu Koreeda

Top cast

Hiromi Ichida Photo
Hiromi Ichida as Hatsuko
Minori Terada Photo
Minori Terada as Detective
Tadanobu Asano Photo
Tadanobu Asano as Ikuo
Akira Emoto Photo
Akira Emoto as Yoshihiro
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912.08 MB
1280*682
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 3
1.73 GB
1920*1024
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 23

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Stephen C 10 / 10

Success in 1 hour and 49 minutes

Success in 1 hour and 49 minutes.
Reviewed by Krakatoa S 10 / 10

A meditation on grief and unanswerable loss. Shot

A meditation on grief and unanswerable loss. Shot with austere beauty through long static takes and minimal dialogue, every frame is composed with painterly precision. Koreeda's restraint is profound. He trusts silence, trusts stillness, trusts the viewer to sit with ambiguity. The film refuses easy answers, instead offering an honest acknowledgment that some questions remain forever unanswerable. The pacing demands patience but rewards it with devastating beauty. This is cinema at its most essential - stripped down to light, shadow, and the weight of what cannot be spoken. Like the phantasmic light of its title, the film itself becomes something luminous and mysterious, impossible to fully grasp but impossible to forget. I believe this is not only Koreeda's best movie, but the best movie ever made, just because it's impossible to make a greater movie. It's perfect on every level imaginable. An absolute gem, and I would sacrifice my left kidney to see on 35mm in a cinema.
Reviewed by Kevin L 7 / 10

A lovely, quiet meditation on grief and questions

A lovely, quiet meditation on grief and questions with no apparent answers. Yumiko suffers a tragic loss and appears to move on. She has a family, her beloved neighbors, and a sense of peace about her. But a visit to a place from her past reveals she still grieves her loss and cannot reconcile the reasoning behind it. And she is has grief from another great loss that is visited upon her in her dreams. Kore-eda's first film after being known more for documentary work is an impressive debut as a dramatic film director. The camera is kept at a distance throughout most of the movie. Often it is far removed from the characters. This is done to create a greater sense of emotional expression that doesn't depend on using close-ups of crying faces to express the character's feelings. There's great respect for his characters as they reflect the lives of actual people who must find their reasons and purpose for living each day. 3.4 stars
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