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Maboroshi no hikari (1995)
Beauty of life, overcoming grief.
Koreeda does an amazing job of portraying a woman's grief over her husband's death, and the rediscovery of love, peace, and happiness. One of the previous posters commented that the "quality" of the video wasn't very good, that is incorrect, as I will explain why. Koreeda used natural lighting in the film rather than artificial lighting; the lighting was done this way so as to keep certain things out of focus at times, to keep them indistinguishable. The lighting is a major part of this film, Koreeda uses the lighting to symbolically represent Yumiko's(Protagonist) mood. During certain parts of the film the lighting will almost always be dim and indiscernible, and in other parts it will be more clear and illuminated, the lighting follows the storyline, and Yumiko's progression and digression.