An acrylic painting on wood panel, titled 'Maborosi', of a woman sitting on a bench and holding a roman candle to the ground that is firing off under a green bicycle.

Maborosi

(1995, Hirokazu Koreeda)

A woman’s husband (Tadanobu Asano) dies unexpectedly (and maybe intentionally) and now as a widow, she agrees to an arrange marriage shortly after. This is a pretty powerful movie about loss. The first 20 minutes is pretty simple and shows her happily living life. The remainder show her living like a zombie, repressing thoughts of her late husband. At first, I thought the last half of the movie was dull but the ending made sense of it all. I cried pretty hard, the emotions struck close to home.


A screenshot of a woman with her hair in a ponytail sitting on an old passenger train. From the film 'Maborosi'. An animated gif of a scene in the movie 'Maborosi' showing a woman riding her bicycle through a commuter train underpass. A screenshot from the film 'Maborosi' showing a couple's photo album.

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