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Maborosi (1995) | dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Maborosi (1995) // dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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🎦 Maborosi (1995)

🎬 Hirokazu Koreeda

🎥 Masao Nakabori

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【date】 1995．09．15

【cover】 長瀬智也　江角マキコ

【contents】 本当の恋がしたい! 未経験だからこそ知りたい、本当の恋愛の実態とは? 自分に嘘をつく女は、永遠に本当の恋愛ができません。

【person】 長瀬智也　江角マキコ　常盤貴子　北川悦吏子　坂東玉三郎

【condition】 古本並程度

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Over Time (Ep 8)

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Maborosi 幻の光, 1995.

dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Maborosi (1995) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Maborosi (1995), dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Maborosi (1995)

[cinematicjourney]

Maborosi (1995) | dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

[pierppasolini]

Maborosi (1995) // dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda

[cinematic-specialist]

🎦 Maborosi (1995)

🎬 Hirokazu Koreeda

🎥 Masao Nakabori

[notokra]

[redsamuraiii]

Over Time (1999)

It's not everyday you encounter a drama that is so similar to yours.

Soichiro (Sorimachi Takashi) is a photographer who met Nazuna (Kimura Yoshino) by chance when he was covering a news in Hokkaido. Nazuna was touched by his kindness that she came to Tokyo to search for him, as they fell in love with each other.

Nazuna, being young and inexperienced in love, tend to be insecure and jump to conclusions every time she sees him with another woman as she wants to have him to herself and not anyone else. She got frustrated with her own insecurities and can't bear the pain.

They took a break from relationship as Nazuna began distance herself away from Soichiro. Soichiro, despite his many attempts to reconcile to start over, got rejected. Heartbroken, he vent his frustration to his long time friend Natsuki (Esumi Makiko).

Coincidentally, Natsuki too is experiencing a heartbreak from her own failed relationship as well from someone she thought she could marry. So the two end up bonding over their heartbreaking experiences and end up in a rebound relationship.

They were confused with their own feelings, thinking that they got close not out of love but out of loneliness. For a while, they flirt with the idea of being together since they have so much things in common and able to open their heart out to each other.

But things got complicated when both their former lovers re-appear in their lives which rekindles a sense of hope for a second chance. Unlike Natsuki whom had a real chance of starting over with her ex, Soichiro is less lucky as Nazuna decides to move on without him.

Natsuki is now torn between Soichiro and her ex, as they are both good men. Soichiro knows that Natsuki is undecided so made the hard choice for her to go with her ex as he feels he is better off than him, someone matured and with a stable career, unlike him.

Natsuki is reluctant but eventually went back with her ex, after Soichiro made her promise to listen to him for one last time. Natsuki cried, knowing what she has to do even though her heart does not. Soichiro bid her farewell as he end up being alone again.

A lot of fans are angry at the ending as they want Natsuki and Soichiro to end up together, because that way everyone get a happy ending since Natsuki's ex could back to his ex-wife and daughter, who already wants him back after the divorce.

But I think it's a realistic ending, in a sense that things don't always go the way we want them to in real life. Some might say, it's unfair as everyone deserve a happy ending but that's just life isn't it? We all think we deserve one and yet, not all of us got them.

Watching this drama hits too close to home as I too lost both women I thought I could spend the rest of my life with. The first one made up her mind to go on without me and the second one went back to her ex because I didn't fight hard enough, just like Soichiro.

He knows that he wants Natsuki but he set aside his own feelings for hers, knowing she would be happier with her ex than him. And so he stop fighting for her, and gave her up. Which makes you wonder, is it selfish if he were to insist Natsuki stay with him and not her ex?

A question I have been asking myself since I broke up years ago.