Maborosi's reviews
Media reviews
Roger Ebert
"'Maborosi' is not going to insult us with a simple-minded plot. It is not a soap opera. Sometimes life presents us with large, painful, unanswerable questions, and we cannot simply «get over them»".
New York Times
"The film, which was made with only natural light, draws the viewer into its spiritual mood with one breathtaking shot after another, as the camera draws back to contemplate Yumiko from afar".
The A.V. Club
"The lingering pain of inexplicable tragedy, and how it swells and recedes in a person's everyday life, is the subject of Maborosi, Hirokazu Koreeda's profoundly affecting meditation on loss".
Variety
"This visually lush but sometimes ponderously slowfilm is a poetic saga of love and loss. Some trimming of the undeniably beautiful, but protracted, sequences in the latter half would probably result in wider acceptance of first-time director Hirokazu Kore-eda?s promising first feature".