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Maboroshi

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A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving 14-year-old Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality.
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Nelson Acosta Koimoi MAPPA, The king of modern anime is back with an original anime film but the story is convoluted and lacks impact. Rated: 2.5/5 Jul 3, 2024 Full Review James Marsh South China Morning Post Ultimately, Maboroshi emerges as one giant, lumbering metaphor for the trials and tribulations of adolescence, devoid of subtlety and likely to exasperate older viewers who have long outgrown such trivial insecurities. Rated: 2/5 Feb 5, 2024 Full Review Charles Solomon FilmWeek (LAist) The storyline is a little more convoluted than it needs to be and the film is a little longer than it needs to be, but that image of a life that just continues so drearily and endlessly without any change is quite chilling. Feb 1, 2024 Full Review JK Sooja Common Sense Media Also painfully slow, melodramatic, and long, this perplexing drama will make most viewers feel like they are also frozen in time. Jan 25, 2024 Full Review Elijah Gonzalez Paste Magazine Part elegy and part celebration of the past, it makes for an evocative, unusual ghost tale. Rated: 7.9/10 Jan 25, 2024 Full Review Mariló Delgado Espinof Maboroshi is a cerebral film, with a continuous tone of nostalgia that (honestly) has to catch you in the right frame of mind so it doesn't leave you wrecked and feeling like a stew. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Jan 17, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I have never written a review here before, but Maboroshi absolutely deserves one. Great character development, original story that was extremely well developed, in a beautiful world. The film is a bit complicated to understand (wich is something good), since the entire trama not only is a CLEAR alegory to Plato's theory, but it also gives a great and interesting view on what makes us human, and what makes us be. To be honest, people that review the movie as "bad" are too stupid to get the true beauty of it, it's slow because it HAS to be (with such a complicated trama), and it's hard to get because it causes way more impact and tought after watching it. Overall great drama and romance experience, if you love the theme, and if you are able to think (thing that many people here dont seem to be able to do), id tell you its a must watch. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/10/25 Full Review Paul S It's definitely one of the weirder anime movies I've seen, but overall, it was an incredibly moving and beautiful film. I'd definitely recommend it for anime fans! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 04/16/25 Full Review Master e É uma história meio complicada de se entender, mas existem momentos bem legais de se acompanhar e tem um final surpreendente. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/25 Full Review Amine T It's great anime at first it's hard to understand story but when you understands it's make you smile and cry at that same time. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/09/24 Full Review NASHVILLE I Sloppy storytelling kills it. The supposed driving force in the story, the explosion, happens in the first few minutes but then it's treated like a mediocre afterthought. It's frustratingly unclear throughout what exactly's going on, and that's not due to plot twists; the writers weren't focused on what they wanted to matter to the audience. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/08/25 Full Review Jhosep G This movie gets perfectly the struggles and worries teenagers have. It is highly relatable in it's own unique way. It keeps the viewer waiting for a scare jump, for the moment of a next revelation and then gratifies them with the development of the story and how the conflict is solved. Will definitely rewatch someday. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/28/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving 14-year-old Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality.
Director
Mari Okada, Seimei Kidokoro
Producer
Manabu Ohtsuka
Screenwriter
Mari Okada
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Legs, MAPPA, Dentsu, Mainichi Newspapers, Nature Lab., Cygames, Movic, Bushiroad, Kadokawa, Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, Lawson Group
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Anime
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 15, 2024
Runtime
1h 51m
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