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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 07/03/2024
2.5/5
MAPPA, The king of modern anime is back with an original anime film but the story is convoluted and lacks impact. Go to Full Review
James Marsh South China Morning Post 02/05/2024
2/5
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. Go to Full Review
Charles Solomon FilmWeek (LAist) 02/01/2024
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. Go to Full Review
JK Sooja Common Sense Media 01/25/2024
Also painfully slow, melodramatic, and long, this perplexing drama will make most viewers feel like they are also frozen in time. Go to Full Review
Elijah Gonzalez Paste Magazine 01/25/2024
7.9/10
Part elegy and part celebration of the past, it makes for an evocative, unusual ghost tale. Go to Full Review
Mariló Delgado Espinof 01/17/2024
4/5
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] Go to Full Review
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Mr. B. @Professor Oct 26 Great anime! Definitely hooked onto their love story. See more Cosmic J Aug 1 this show was so good See more Martin A Jul 4 Movie was hard to understand and follow along with at times, but the overall message and impact it has is just amazing. There are pretty evident flaws, but overall, I really liked the movie. You have to watch it at the right time, when you are feeling the right things See more Maxim K May 23 Donnie Darko meet The mist, great anime See more Apr 10 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. See more Paul S Mar 21 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! See more Read all reviews
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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
Mainichi Newspapers, Bushiroad, MAPPA, Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, Legs, Kadokawa, Nature Lab., Dentsu, Movic, Lawson Group, Cygames
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Anime
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 15, 2024
Runtime
1h 51m
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