Although he died, he never left.

Marc 2022-10-14 11:00:22

7.5 points. The dead have always been the indelible shadow of the living. There is almost such a person in the director's films, a person who is not present, but has a huge sense of presence. Even if she started a new life, she was never relieved. The heroine finally asked a question, which never disappeared. A son who is similar to his father, the part where the son sees a bicycle similar to his father is really fateful. The peaceful life by the sea seems to be buried in the pain of the past, but from the sudden loss of her little grandmother to the suicide of her young husband, the unpredictability of death has always been buried in her heart. The funeral at the end was so beautiful.

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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.