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	Mabroosi - DVD Movie Central
		Maborosi is, in Kore-eda's words, a sort of "fairy tale, through which I could directly convey the interior landscape of the sorrow [the woman] carries around with her."
		Maborosi is that extremely rare film of which it can honestly be said that nearly every single frame is as pretty as a painting.
		Maborosi had become a regular presence on many top ten lists for the year, and in the ensuing years, it has become regarded as one of the finest Japanese films of the past decade.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/mabroosi.htm (1929 words)

	DVD of the Week: (12/27/2003): Maborosi
		Maborosi deals with this notion of inconceivable loss through the story of a young woman, Yumiko (Makiko Esumi, miles removed from her mannered "Cinematic Kabuki" performance in Pistol Opera), happily married to Ikuo (Tadanobu Asano).
		Since Maborosi, he has also directed After Life, an amusing and fanciful take on what happens after we give up the ghost, and Distance, an oblique but oddly effective way to gain another perspective-of-a-kind on one of Japan's most troubling bits of recent history, the Aum Shinrikyo subway gas attack.
		Disc notes: The U.S. DVD of Maborosi is nowhere nearly as good as the import Region 2 version: it's widescreen, but not anamorphic -- a serious mistake for a film where a lot of what goes on is in long shots.
	www.thegline.com /dvd-of-the-week/2003/12-27-2003.htm (997 words)

	[KFCC] Maborosi Review
		Review: Maborosi is easily one of the most inspiring and beautiful pieces of cinema to emerge from Japan in the last couple of decades, Hirokazu Koreeda takes a steady and slow approach to telling this tale of loss and the attempts of Yumiko to accept the hand fate has dealt her.
		Throughout Maborosi picturesque and extensive shots are in abundance, little seems to happen in many until the weather and surroundings come to the forefront of things.
		This is far from true, the emotional content is apparent and often moving, Yumiko’s unease and sadness a strong contrast to the carefree joy her children experience as they explore the wonders and splendor of the village.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/drama/maborosi/maborosi.html (731 words)

	Eye Weekly - One is the Loneliest Number - 02.13.97
		There's a scene near the end of Maborosi (Illusion), the new film from Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, which perfectly encapsulates a kind of universal loneliness that everyone has probably felt, but few have been able to boil down to a single visual image.
		That Maborosi does not actually play like some kind of unrestrained depress-fest is mainly due to the presence of its star, model-turned actress Esumi -- a swan-necked, blessedly all-natural charmer with an effusive, infectious grin.
		Maborosi is by no means perfect -- it drags a little and leaves a few more unanswered questions than it really needs -- but it contains some very perfect moments, and the scene described in my first paragraph is just one of them.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.13.97/film/files.html (458 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- The Delicate House of `Maborosi' / Japanese film a lovely meditation on meaning of life
		Lovely, sad and mesmerizing, ``Maborosi,'' which opens today at the Roxie Cinema, is one of the best foreign films to arrive this year.
		``Maborosi,'' which is the Japanese word for illusion or mirage, doesn't focus on plot so much as the emotional landscape that envelops Yumiko after her tragedy.
		Nothing is casual and nothing is wasted in ``Maborosi.'' The roar of the sea registers the barrenness of the soul.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/11/29/DD59204.DTL (525 words)

	Artistic License Films - "After Life"
		KORE-EDA Hirokazu came to international attention in August 1995 when Maborosi, his first narrative feature film, was screened at the Venice Film Festival and awarded the Ozella D'oro.
		Maborosi, a mesmerizing hymn to a woman's grief after her husband's unexplained suicide, alerted international audiences to the emergence of an extraordinarily talented Japanese filmmaker.
		Returning to the themes of loss and memory he explored in Maborosi and Without Memory, KORE-EDA's new film is an original, poignant and universal story about life.
	www.artlic.com /films/afterlife.html (525 words)

	A Conversation With "Maborosi" Director, Hirokazu Kore-Eda - Part I
		"Maborosi", the first feature film by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda, begins with a 12-year old Osakan girl named Yumiko watching as her grandmother leaves to return to the village of her childhood to die.
		Years later, Yumiko (Makiko Esumi) is waiting for her husband and childhood sweetheart, Ikuo, to return from work, when she is informed by a policeman that Ikuo has committed suicide.
		Yumiko and Tamio's marriage flourishes, except that she cannot stop grieving for her late husband, and is unable to comprehend Tamio's ability to overcome his own grief.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_kore-eda_hiro_1_960905.html (782 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Hirokazu Kore-eda
		(Maborosi was also shown in the New Horizons section of the Thessaloniki festival the same year.) Three films and a decade later, Kore-eda is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of his generation.
		Lyrical and astonishingly beautiful, Maborosi follows the odyssey of Yumiko (fashion model Makiko Esumi), a young woman struggling to comprehend the inexplicable suicide of her childhood sweetheart and husband Ikuo (Tadanobu Asano).
		Maborosi reminds us that sometimes the mysterious patterns and fateful turns life takes are simply unanswerable.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /47/koreeda.htm (1423 words)

	Maborosi \| The A.V. Club
		The lingering pain of inexplicable tragedy, and how it swells and recedes in a person's everyday life, is the subject of Maborosi, Hirokazu Koreeda's profoundly affecting meditation on loss.
		But the many rewards—including Koreeda's uncommon ability to express his heroine's internal life without a single close-up, Esumi's quiet yet deeply moving performance, and breathtaking landscapes that threaten to swallow the characters whole—more than compensate for the funereal pacing.
		The 33-year-old Koreeda, who began his career in documentary, has a gift for observing life as it's lived, accumulating simple, seemingly banal scenes into an unforgettable reflection on the frustration and helplessness of trying to explain the ineffable.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/2068/print (230 words)

	A Conversation With "Maborosi" Director, Hirokazu Kore-Eda - Part II
		The splendor of "Maborosi" lies in the cinematography of Masao Nakabori, who presents cityscape and landscape via compositions reflecting Yumiko's sorrow.
		Shots are held for longer than usual, and natural lighting is used distinctively-- interior scenes are sometimes so dark that no detail can be discerned, and many exterior shots seem to have been captured during overcast days.
		But I believe that people who will feel something for "Maborosi" and begin to think because of the film exist everywhere regardless of religion, nationality or the state of the film industry in their countries.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_kore-eda_hiro_2_960905.html (570 words)

	Maborosi -- Review by Roger Ebert
		`Maborosi" is a Japanese film of astonishing beauty and sadness, the story of a woman whose happiness is destroyed in an instant by an event that seems to have no reason.
		Time passes, she picks up some of the pieces, and she is even distracted sometimes by happiness.
		"Maborosi" is one of those valuable films where you have to actively place yourself in the character's mind.
	www.ebertfest.com /one/maborosi_rev.htm (690 words)

	Maboroshi no hikari (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		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.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0113725 (603 words)

	Amazon.ca: Maborosi (Widescreen): DVD: Hirokazu Koreeda,Makiko Esumi,Takashi Naitô,Tadanobu Asano,Gohki ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At times, Kore-eda seems to be trudging too dutifully in the path of his illustrious predecessors, and there is little in the film that could be qualified as original.
		Yet Maborosi remains convincing in its subtle, sustained moods and the quiet confidence of its approach.
		Maborosi (Maboroshi no Hikari) is a beautiful film.
	www.amazon.ca /Maborosi-Widescreen-Hirokazu-Koreeda/dp/B00004WIE5 (1527 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Maborosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Maborosi is a Japanese word that means illusion or mirage, and Hirokazu Kore-eda's captivating debut feature is a lyrical examination of a vague beautiful glow that rises from the ocean and pulls fishermen away from shore, and the living toward death.
		Maborosi, in exploring the impact unexplained death has on a loved one's survivors, is gorgeous stately and full of deeply resounding imagery.
		The winner of awards at film festivals throughout the world, Maborosis is a rare gem.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/maborosi.html (231 words)

	Amazon.com: Maborosi: DVD: Makiko Esumi,Takashi Naitô,Tadanobu Asano,Gohki Kashiyama,Naomi Watanabe,Midori ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hirokazu Kore-eda's haunting, graceful Japanese film features a concentrated and powerfully reserved performance by Makiko Esumi as Yumiko, a young woman whose life is defined by the death and disappearance of her loved ones.
		Her second husband tells a story about the beguiling nature of the ocean which also calls to fishermen, when they are out fishing alone...
		A maborosi is a beckoning light that the sea lulls sailors to their doom with.
	www.amazon.com /Maborosi-Makiko-Esumi/dp/B00004WIE5 (2098 words)

	Hirokazu Kore-eda (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yet, despite the passage of time and distance from her hometown, one question continues to haunt her: Why was Ikuo walking on the tracks?
		Maborosi is a visually serene, poignant, and honest examination of loss and grief.
		Using the recurring imagery of rectangular and framed compositions, static camera, and warm, natural lighting, Hirokazu Kore-eda pays reverent homage to the indelible, humanist cinema of Yasujiro Ozu.
	www.filmref.com.cob-web.org:8888 /directors/dirpages/koreeda.html (1276 words)

	Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: Maborosi
		MABOROSI (MABOROSI NO HIKARI), director Hirokazu Kore-eda's first narrative feature, opens with a young girl chasing after her grandmother and pleading for her to return home.
		MABOROSI, which roughly translates as "strange light", delicately explores the survivor’s mourning and grief.
		MABOROSI doesn’t have a large arc because the film refuses to advance until Yumiko reaches an acceptance of Ikuo’s death.
	reeltimes.blogspot.com /2005/07/maborosi.html (924 words)

	Maborosi
		This exquisitely beautiful film follows the psychological journey of a young woman, Yumiko, searching to understand the tragedy of loss in her life.
		Acclaimed as one of the finest Japanese films of the decade, Maborosi is a story of great love, inexplicable death, and at last, hope and regeneration.
		Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years ago, a beautiful young mother struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband.
	www.mongrelmedia.com /films/Maborosi.html (183 words)

	Religion and Cinema Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kore-eda Hirokazu's film of a young widow with a small son takes advantage of the Japanese landscape to create an image of reconciliation and peace.
		Maborosi is an exquisitely photographed bittersweet story of love and loss adapted from a short story by Teru Miyamoto.
		Winner of the Gold Hugo for Best Film at the Chicago Film Festival, Maborosi is a film of great cinematic beauty, narrative elegance, and emotional power.
	www.princeton.edu /~csrelig/cinema/Maborosi.htm (94 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		Based on the short story Maborosi no Hikari (Illusory Light) by noted Japanese author Teru Miyamoto, Kore-eda’s adaptation follows the trials and tribulations of Yumiko, a young married woman (Esumi) whose life seems almost imperceptibly haunted by the spirit of death.
		As the film opens, Yumiko is awakened from a dream in which she finds her grandmother leaving the village to go die in her native village.
		Indeed, the amount of dialogue in Maborosi is practically negligible, and the film instead relies on the haunting sounds of lonely train whistles, eerie bicycle bells, and the lapping of the ocean waves to convey the deep, soulless aura of loss that permeates the film from beginning to end.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:220481 (807 words)

	Maborosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Clearly influenced by the films of Hou Hsaio-hsien -- an acclaimed Taiwanese director whose work leaves me cold -- Maborosi is breathtakingly beautiful, at least superficially, and will undoubtedly please those who are open to the idea of motion picture as dynamic art gallery.
		Alas, I have not yet reached that enlightened stage; though I'm not someone who demands non-stop action in the films I see (Safe and Wild Reeds both made my top ten list last year), I do find it preferable that something happen onscreen.
		In that sense, Maborosi is the arthouse equivalent of
	www.panix.net /~dangelo/mabo.html (234 words)

	Maborosi
		Acclaimed as one of the finest Japanese films of the decade, Maborosi is a story of great love, inexplicable loss, and at last, hope and regeneration.
		Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother, a beautiful young mother (Makiko Esumi as Yumiko) inextricably fears her eternal devotion brought forth the disheartening fate of her true love.
		There, with time, she awakens to find love, understanding, happiness and an enlightening sense of peace.
	www.newyorkerfilms.com /nyf/synopsis.jsp?catalogNo=NYD66500 (98 words)

	Immanence and Transcendence in the Cinema of Nature
		When Mochizuki finally chooses it will be because he has found a memory in which he formed part of an assemblage beyond his centred, egoist consciousness.
		As in Tarkovsky's Nostalgia (1983), the heroine of Maborosi suffers not so much because of the loss of her beloved husband, but because of the irreversibility of time and man's inability to retrace his steps and recapture a moment as it happened - to achieve the ultimate hermeneutic grasp of an event in its occurring.
		Towards the end of Maborosi Yumiko's new husband Tomio answers her tragic pleas for understanding "why did he kill himself?" by relating a story told to him by his father of having once seen a light beckoning him out to sea.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/11/nature.html (1552 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Maborosi (1995)
		These are not words I would use to describe Hirokazu Kore-eda's first feature film Maborosi.
		I was captivated by how Kore-eda used his visual style to express the story.
		Maborosi begins with a short prologue about a girl who cannot prevent her grandmother from leaving back to her hometown to die.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/m/maborosi.htm (672 words)

	Maborosi - Moviefone
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	Maborosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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