Maborosi

Screening Schedule

Nov 24 (Sun.) 10:30 at Hiroshima City Cinematographic and Audio-visual Library

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Details

<Story>
Hirokazu Koreeda made a Teru Miyamoto's novel into a film of the same title, Maboroshi (illusion).
Ikuo and Yumiko are a young couple living in Osaka, but one day, Ikuo suddenly commits suicide and Yumiko falls into deep sorrow.
A few years later, Yumiko, still having the pain in her heart, remarries to Tamio and moves to a small town in the Hokuriku region.
This film is a story of loss and rebirth. It portrays Yumiko's heart delicately with images conscious of the lights in the screen.

<Staff>
Cast：Makiko Esumi、Naitô Takashi、Tadanobu Asano，Akira Emoto
Director：Hirokazu Koreeda
Script：Yoshihisa Ogita
Producer：Yutaka Shigenobu，Naoe Gôzu
Art Director：Kyôko Heya

<Info>
Year of production: 1995
Running time: 110’
Country:Japan

<Guests>
Kyoko Heya

Amir Naderi
His previous feature was 2011’s CUT, shot in Japan and entirely in Japanese. Naderi’s 1984 film THE RUNNER gained wide international critical recognition. Since the 1970s, he has been among the most influential figures of New Iranian Cinema. His work has been the subject of retrospectives at museums and film festivals around the world, including the Film Society of Lincoln Center (New York), Turin’s Museum of Cinema (Italy) and at the Busan International Film Festival (Korea). Although Naderi’s early films explored themes within the context of Iranian life and culture, he has cited the aesthetics of Italian neorealist cinema as inspiration: non-studio shooting, the use of nonprofessional actors, looser narrative structures, and a focus on the plight of poor and working-class people. Naderi has produced works of new filmmakers such as Andrei Severny’s Condition (2011), Naghmeh Shirkhan’s Hamsayeh (2010) and Ry RussoYoung’s Orphans (2007). He also co-wrote Ramin Bahrani’s 99 HOMES (2015). Naderi was born in 1946 and grew up in Abadan, a working-class port city in southern Iran. He emigrated to the United States in the 1990s. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 2016 MONTE 2014 MISE EN SCENE WITH ARTHUR PENN (documentary) 2011 60 SECONDS OF SOLITUDE IN YEAR ZERO 2011 CUT 2008 VEGAS: BASED ON A TRUE STORY 2005 SOUND BARRIER 2002 MARATHON 1997 A, B, C... MANHATTAN 1993 MANHATTAN BY NUMBERS 1989 WATER, WIND DUST (AB, BAD, KHAK) 1985 THE RUNNER 1981 SEARCH TWO (JOSTEJU DOE) 1980 SEARCH ONE (JOSTEJU YEK) 1979 THE WINNER (BARANDEH) 1978 REQUIEM (MARSIYEH) 1973 WAITING (ENTEZAR) 1973 HARMONICA (SAZDAHANI) 1971 TANGNA (IMPASSE) 1970 GOODBYE FRIEND (KHODA HAFEZ RAFIQ)

Director

Hirokazu Koreeda
Film director Hirokazu Kore-eda graduated from the First Department of Literature at Waseda University in 1987. After graduation, he joined TV Man Union, which is one of the most famous television production companies in Japan, and mainly directed documentary programs there.He established a production company BUN-BUKU with co-founders including director Miwa Nishikawa in 2014. He is a professor of the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering at Waseda University from 2014.His major works include “Nobody Knows” (2004, won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival), “Like Father, Like Son” (2013, won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) and “Shoplifters” (2018, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Award).His latest film　“The Truth (La Vérité)” was selected as the opening film of the Venice International Film Festival. It was the first opening film directed by Japanese.Film　director Hirokazu Kore-eda graduated from the First Department of Literature at Waseda University in 1987. After graduation, he joined TV Man Union, which is one of the most famous television production companies in Japan, and mainly directed documentary programs there.He established a production company BUN-BUKU with co-founders including director Miwa Nishikawa in 2014. He is a professor of the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering at Waseda University from 2014.His major works include “Nobody Knows” (2004, won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival), “Like Father, Like Son” (2013, won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival) and “Shoplifters” (2018, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Award).His latest film　“The Truth (La Vérité)” was selected as the opening film of the Venice International Film Festival. It was the first opening film directed by Japanese.