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    Poster of the movie Maborosi
    1995     Drama    
    1h 50min
    Original titleMaboroshi no hikari
    Original lang.Japanese
    CountryJapan

    Yukimo (Makiko Esumi) is married to Ikuo (Tadanobu Asano), a happy and humble man who loves her very much. While Yukimo and Ikuo are content in their marriage and have a beautiful infant son named Yuichi, Yukimo is haunted by visions of death. She has a recurring nightmare in which her grandmother leaves her home to go to the village of her birth to die, as Yukimo weeps uncontrollably. Yukimo's sad obsession foreshadows a real tragedy in her life when she wakes one morning to discover that police are at her door -- Ikuo has died after apparently committing suicide along the nearby railroad tracks. Yukimo is shattered and spends several years in solitude, until she meets Tamio (Taketoshi Naito), a widowed fisherman who lives in a nearby village with his daughter. They fall in love, and Yukimo marries him and moves into his home. She begins to find happiness anew, until she returns to her old home for her brother's wedding, which brings back a flood of troubling memories.

    Directed byHirokazu Koreeda
    Written byTeru Miyamoto, Yoshihisa Ogita
    CompanyMongrel MediaMongrel MediaMongrel Media

    Starring

    Tadanobu Asano
    Makiko Esumi
    Takashi Naitô
    Gohki Kashiyama
    Naomi Watanabe
    Midori Kiuchi
    Akira Emoto
    Mutsuko Sakura
    Hidekazu Akai
    Hiromi Ichida
    Minori Terada
    Ren Ohsugi
    Kikuko Hashimoto
    Shuichi Harada
    Takashi Inoue
    Sayaka Yoshino

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