Hikari (2017)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 101 minuten
Alternative titles: Radiance / 光
Country:
Japan / France
Directed by: Naomi Kawase
Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki and Tatsuya Fuji
IMDb score:
6,4 (2.141)
Releasedate: 27 May 2017
Hikari plot
Misako is a passionate writer of voice-overs for the visually impaired. At a film screening, she meets Masaya, an elderly photographer who is slowly losing his sight. His work brings back memories of her past. Together they learn to see the world around them with different eyes.
Actors and actresses
Masaya Nakamori
Misako Ozaki
Kitabayashi / Juzo
Yasuko Ozaki
Tomoko / Tokie
Sano
Nakamori's Friend #1
Nakamori's Friend #2
Audiolocution Attending #2
Model
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Radiance delivers a special and serene portrait between the relationship of a translator of visual fragments for the visually impaired and a man who is slowly going blind. The one who, by the way, has always had something to do with image and sight because he was professionally involved in this as a photographer. His old fashion camera is therefore his greatest asset and a kind of surrogate and view of his current living environment.
I did find the feedback from the blind listeners on Misako's stories interesting. So it does not seem easy to convert images into words. On the one hand, you have to take into account the listener's own imagination and sometimes you are not allowed to reveal too much. In principle, fantasy and imagination should be very precious and strong in the blind. On the other hand, too little interpretation leads to confusion. This was the case with the word sand sculpture (something that also immediately struck me).
Despite the many positive elements in the film, I was not always enthusiastic or completely captivated by the film. Subdued and serene, natural too, but it didn't always hit me either. But. Apparently I'm not the only one here who struggled with this...
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Poetic cinema that, especially in the beginning, captivated with the audio descriptions of the girl, the criticism that followed and the emotions that this aroused.
After that it is still beautiful, especially cinematic, but where a lot of thinking is also released about aspects of life, what it was like, what it could have been and what remains. However, the film also flirts a bit with exaggerated sentimentality, but I almost gave it a 4.
Naomi Kawase never disappoints but the level of "An" is not reached here.
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T.O.
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- 2428 messages
- 2806 votes
Sensitive film with an interesting and original setting. A bit too poetic for my taste.
Strong acting from Nagase and the handsome Misaki.
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