Maborosi 1995 123movies

Watch: 幻の光 1995 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young woman’s husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 6,378
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	92/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 114 Popularity: 9.264 | TMDB

Reviews:

A meditation on death
In 1998 the Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda astonished those of us who feel passionately about the expressive power of cinema with “After Life” a film about the hereafter that I would claim to be one of the masterworks of the past decade. The effect of this was so mesmerising that for some time I completely forgot about “Maborosi” an earlier work that I had caught up with only a few days before. Although not in the same league, it is worth a look if only to trace the origins of the later piece. Just as “After Life is a meditation on life from the point of view of the dead, “Maborosi” reverses the process and meditates on death from the living’s perspective. A young girl feels somehow responsible for the death of her grandmother whom she cannot persuade to return to the family home after she wanders off one day. As a young woman she again is unable to escape a feeling of guilt when her husband is unaccountably struck down and killed by a train. These events happen fairly quickly in the first third of the film. The rest is an elegiac account of her second marriage to a widower with a young daughter and their life together in a remote fishing community as far away from the cramped streets of the city as it is possible to imagine. With the baby son by her first husband now grown to a small boy the new family feels complete. And yet the woman still exists in a state of unease. Although there are no more disasters, there are continual reminders of the frailty of life. An elderly woman, not unlike her grandmother, takes a boat out in a storm but returns unharmed. On a later occasion she watches an anonymous funeral procession which seems held in longshot for an eternity. “Marobosi” which means “The Beckoning Light” – a clear reference to death – is full of the influences of other directors. There is that of Ozu in the many domestic interiors where the camera seldom moves, Angelopoulos in the many long held exterior vistas and even Hou Xiaoxian in the way the audience is made to concentrate hard to work out character reactions and situations given a minimum of verbal and visual information. One curious fact about the film is the way the characters either appear in shadow or middle distance so that their emotions are hard to recognise. In the end this effect of deliberately distancing the protagonists is the film’s essential weakness. It gives a sense of detachment and uninvolvement that Koreeda was to overcome triumphantly in the marvellous “After Life”.

Worth loving, worth hating. …but is it worth 2 hours of your time?
Wow, there are some pretty extreme reviews of this film. I’ve read both the LOVED ITs and the HATED ITs, and I agree with both. So what’s the deal? Is this the best film ever, or should it be used as a torture device at Guantanamo Bay?

All I can say is that I experienced moments of both extremes, but in the end I was unsatisfied. It begins provocatively with an interesting flashback, told very poetically through high contrast shots with deep perspective. This sets the tone very nicely and even manages to inject some suspense into the film. But the movie’s downfall is excessive, gratuitous repetition in the hours that follow.

The plot develops suddenly within the first 30 mins or so. From then on, don’t expect much of a story because the rest is a highly impressionistic mood-type piece with little dialogue and less action. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; directors like Ming-liang Tsai (THE HOLE) have pulled it off successfully, but what irked me in this case was the gratuitous repetition. Yes, I know I said “gratuitous repetition” already. Good to see you’re paying attention 😉

I counted 5 scenes (long ones) of the heroine sitting in a dark room staring out a window with a ghostly light illuminating her face. It was stirring the first time, but after a few more times it’s simply redundant & anticlimactic. Another great image–used powerfully at first but losing its charm after the 3rd or 4th beating over the head–is a far shot of a body of water where our eye is drawn to the reflections of people on the surface. OK, Koreeda, we get the picture; the film is about the contrast between shadows and bright light, reality and deceptive illusion, that which we do not understand vs. that which we *think* we understand. If it were presented more concisely, I would have loved it. But did he really require 2 hours to say it? And if so, could he not have explored it more deeply, rather than leaving us with a somewhat shallow climactic monologue at the end? (I call it a ‘monologue’, but actually it’s only 2 or 3 sentences which summarize the whole point of the film.)

In the end, my impression of MABOROSHI is much like my impression of Koreeda’s later film AFTER LIFE (which I think is much better than this); the philosophy is very interesting, there are certain poetic moments that will captivate you, but when the film is over you get the feeling that you’ve just read a haiku. Nothing more.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama
Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer Teru Miyamoto, Yoshihisa Ogita
Actors Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano
Country Japan
Awards 9 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 535, Zeiss Super Speed Lenses
Laboratory Tokyo Laboratory Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm