Phantom Light describes the gaze of the dead. The saddest thing about death is watching the people who are still alive accept the process of the deceased. When she was a child, Yumiko watched her grandmother insist on running away from home and walking back to her hometown and could not stop her, because her grandmother said she was going to die in her hometown. When Yumiko grew up, she had a poor but happy family, but her husband committed suicide without any reason. Yumiko remarried, although the reorganized family is equally happy and beautiful, but the suicide of her ex-husband has always been a knot in Yumiko's heart, just as the death of her grandmother has always made her unable to let go. She didn't understand why her husband chose to commit suicide. You know, Yumiko is a perfect wife in the movie. The current husband told her that there is no reason, people are sometimes attracted to death, and it is not your fault. It was Hirokazu Ededa who said in "Things I Was Thinking When Filming" that his films were very similar to Ozu's films in terms of time. It's just that many of his movies loop in a circle and fall off the origin. For example, in "Phantom Light", it starts with the breakup of one happy family and ends with the reorganization of another happy family. The dead are gone, so are the living.
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