Maborosi Comments

  • Reinhold 2023-03-06 06:24:00

    A film that can be engraved into my life. Love all the lines. I lost my mind in a lot of empty shots and long shots (laughs). The quiet background can reveal the bright light in the cold, and the kindness and silence of life can be seen in the quiet. The BGM of the last song. It's hard to imagine that this was shot by someone in his early thirties, incredibly advanced and...

  • Trisha 2023-02-26 17:00:08

    It was Hiroeda and Virgo, who saw Hou Hsiao-hsien, the disappearing father, the family of thieves, the remembrance for forgetting, and the part of life that people don't understand. The slow camera records the overlooked momentary perspectives in life. We strive to understand the vivid background that is about to leave. They have a light to guide them, but they leave us with a flickering...

  • Antonina 2023-02-22 07:18:44

    A very sad film throughout the whole process, but without any emotional outbursts, it is plain enough to make people suspicious, and even believe that life is like this and will gradually lose the feeling without stopping. But when the bell rang, the wind and waves hit, and they were waiting for people to go home. The wife said angrily: You are a liar, why can you marry my ex-wife who loves me so much. In fact, this is what he said. Finally, in the funeral procession, I walked to the beach and...

  • Gillian 2023-01-30 17:36:37

    Very tasteful, and the director has a keen sense of lens language and montage. Themes are particularly common and characteristic of the Japanese. The performance is also very restrained. The color is gray, gray, blue and blue, and many indoor scenes do not seem to have special lighting, and sometimes the faces are dark, but this is not a disadvantage. In this movie, it is a feature. Many scenes in the countryside are extremely beautiful, reminding me of An Zhe. Lots of centered symmetrical...

  • Chelsea 2023-01-29 13:21:33

    The endless nostalgia for the dead is a burden or a responsibility for the living. Death is a temptation. The scene of the funeral at the seaside in the latter part of the movie trapped people's sadness in it for a long time. It belongs to the kind of film that explores philosophy and the meaning of...

  • May 2023-01-28 15:25:21

    A / The night is still in the cold water and the fish does not eat, and the ship is empty and the moon...

  • Alyson 2023-01-05 09:08:16

    After watching Shizhi’s first film, I realized that his early film style was deeply influenced by Hou Hsiao-hsien. As for the later he went to concentrate on family dramas and became a master in the world, some people said that he was disappointed, but for me It's not that, film aesthetics don't have to insist on differentiating, expressing all kinds of things, quiet and noisy, default or covered, and those that can reach people's hearts, are all good...

  • Griffin 2023-01-02 04:04:39

    There is still a kind of still green, deliberate silence, but it has been possible to let the camera and music express infinite meaning in the place where there is enough...

  • Yolanda 2022-12-24 17:38:55

    In the early days, Zhizhi should have loved Ojin and Hou Hsiao-hsien quite a bit. This story is not only a long farewell to those who left without saying goodbye, but also to myself who does not know what I have done wrong. People have to live long enough to understand that many things cannot be blamed on any one party for no reason, and they have to live longer to accept this...

  • Fredy 2022-12-15 10:26:36

    The camera and music are excellent, and every frame is a Japanese-style photo. Yumiko's life is always about the official farewell of the dead, and she died so inexplicably. Is the so-called phantom light a call of death? (Slow tempo to a few...

Extended Reading

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.