Illusion

Maborosi is Kore-eda’s debut film, and a great introduction to what later became this director’s signature theme: how inner feelings can be expressed through the physical, visual world. Through composition of details and scenography, Kore-eda manages to convey an extra dimension in his characters. In Maborosi we meet Yumiko, a young widower, who struggles to understand her husband’s seemingly inexplicable suicide. She moves to the coast with her son, where she tries to put the past behind her with a new husband, who himself is troubled by his grief over a loss. akek