
Maborosi
Maborosi, known in Japan as , is a 1995 Japanese drama film by director Hirokazu Kore-eda starring Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, and Takashi Naito. It is based on a novel by Teru Miyamoto.
Plot
Yumiko (Esumi) and Ikuo (Asano) are a young Osaka couple who have a new baby. One day Ikuo is walking along the railway tracks and is hit and killed by a train. It seems that he may have done this deliberately yet there is no apparent motive. A few years pass. Yumiko agrees to an arranged marriage with a widower, Tamio (Naitō), and she and Yuichi (her son, now played by Gohki Kashima) move to Tamio's house in a rustic village on the Sea of Japan coast, shot on location in Wajima, on the Noto Peninsula (the actual location where the film was shot is Uniumachi, about 5km west from Wajima along the coast).
Awards
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author | Teru Miyamoto |
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award | Golden Hugo Award Golden Osella for Best Director |
director | Hirokazu Koreeda |
editor | Tomoyo Oshima |
genre | drama |
keywords | arranged marriage kill lost love new baby noto peninsula osaka sea of japan shot on location walk |
musicBy | Chen Ming-Chang |
producer | Naoe Gozu |
publisher | Milestone Films |
theme | japanese |