Makiko Esumi

Makiko Esumi

  • Born: 1966-12-18
  • Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Terence 2022-11-06 17:40:35

      daily life

      "Phantom Light" is Hirokazu-eda's debut (released in 1995), 23 years ago, but the style is always the same, and the process of its level is getting better, which is very different from the Chinese director "Anticipate".

      There are a lot of shots in the "wide-focus panorama" static camera, that is,...

    • Verda 2022-11-11 23:18:38

      It's Hirokazu Kore-eda's movie "Phantom Light": Fang Hanjun, the unknowing magic light

      I still remember the scorching summer of 2003, when the cat was in the hut watching this "Phantom Light" (1995). What lingered on was the woman's paradoxical standing still.

      I have always wondered how Hirokazu-eda managed the rhythm of the film, and how to construct the vision, corners and standing...

    Maborosi quotes

    • Yumiko: It's harder to say goodbye if we keep postponing it.

    • Yumiko: [Recalling her first husband's unexplained suicide] I just... I just don't understand! Why did he kill himself? Why was he walking along the tracks? It just goes around and around in my head. Why do you think he did it?

      Tamio: [after giving it some thought] The sea has the power to beguile. Back when dad was fishing, he once saw a maborosi - a strange light - far out to sea. Something in it was beckoning to him, he said... It happens to all of us.