Watch the trailer for Maborosi (1995)
“Quietly devastating… profoundly moving”
Time Out
“An essential work of modern Japanese cinema”
Village Voice
Japan, 1995
109 mins
Cert PG
Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda
With Makiko Esumi and Tadanobu Asano
Yumiko is troubled by the notion that she brings death to people close to her. Following the loss of her grandmother and husband, she remarries and begins to find happiness anew. But on a return to her old home for her brother’s wedding, a flood of troubling memories begins to haunt her.
Venues
July
From 13 July
Towner Gallery
August
18 August
Chichester Film Festival