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Yumiko: It's harder to say goodbye if we keep postponing it.
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Yumiko: [Recalling her first husband's unexplained suicide] I just... I just don't understand! Why did he kill himself? Why was he walking along the tracks? It just goes around and around in my head. Why do you think he did it?
Tamio: [after giving it some thought] The sea has the power to beguile. Back when dad was fishing, he once saw a maborosi - a strange light - far out to sea. Something in it was beckoning to him, he said... It happens to all of us.
Maborosi Quotes
Extended Reading
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Rebeka 2022-05-11 19:15:25
Believing that her husband is a liar, she has not lost her deep love for her ex-wife. He is clearly pretending, and he has not let go of his attachment to his ex-husband. Life is like falling down when learning to ride a bike, spreading salt when eating watermelon, but death to some people is like the call of light from the sea to those who go to sea. The child wants to hide the abandoned boat in the cabinet, the grandma wants to catch crabs in the violent sea breeze, and she needs to participate in a death farewell, like the old man living alone next door, turn up the radio volume to prove that she is alive.
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Maribel 2022-05-11 21:39:36
To be reasonable, some passages are still a bit eloquent. Several Hou Hsiao-hsien camera positions and several Ozu compositions. It was Hirokazu Kore-eda who was stubborn and reluctant to talk when he was young, and was silent about life and death, and only started to gossip later. But that doesn't stop me from liking the phantom light, the sea of Kanazawa, the long breathing between the ebb and flow of the tide, like a character, placed in the mirror from beginning to end. When can life and death be truly understood, maybe only when the boundary between sea and sky is blurred
