KOREEDA, Hirokazu, 1962-; ASANO, Tadanobu; ESUMI, Makiko

The article focuses on the film "Maborosi," directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, starring Tadanobu Asano and Makiko Esumi. The film is a story of a Yumiko (Makiko Esumi) and her family. Yumiko resides in a cozily low-rent neighborhood of Osaka, where she grew up amid the alleyways, tunnels and trains. Her husband whom she's known since childhood, works in a small factory. The film revolves around Yumiko's submersion in grief and bafflement and the way she slowly resurfaces within a strange new environment.