Maborosi
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| Directed by | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| Produced by | Naoe Gozu |
| Written by | Teru Miyamoto |
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Makiko Esumi Tadanobu Asano Akira Emoto |
| Music by | Ming-Chang Chen |
| Cinematography | Masao Nakabori |
| Edited by | Tomoyo Oshima |
| Distributed by | Milestone Films |
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109 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Maborosi, 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.
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°24′01″N 136°51′08″E / 37.400260°N 136.852101°E).
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