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The Sea Is Watching
Directed by
Kei Kumai
R
2002
1h 59m
Drama
,
Romance
7.0
57%
71%
5.7
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O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.
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Cast of The Sea Is Watching
Misa Shimizu
Kikuno
Nagiko Tono
O-Shin
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Fusanosuke
Eiji Okuda
Ginji
Miho Tsumiki
Okichi
Masatoshi Nagase
Ryosuke
Michiko Kawai
Osono
Yumiko Nogawa
Omine
Tenshi Kamogawa
Umekichi
Yukiya Kitamura
Gonta
Takayuki Katô
Kumiko Tsuchiya
Prostitute
Rikiya Ôtaka
Boy
Renji Ishibashi
Zenbei
Kei Kumai
Director / Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Shūgorō Yamamoto
Novel
Masaya Nakamura
Producer
Kôshirô Andô
Producer
Sunobu Horigome
Producer
The Sea Is Watching Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It has been directed by Kei Kumai as a film that seems more melodramatic and sentimental than Kurosawa's norm.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Filled with love and melancholy, it's a fitting, fond epilogue to [Kurosawa].
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Jeff Vice
While this material isn't necessarily up to the standards of Kurosawa's best work, it does warrant at least a look.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
You could literally hang any random frame on the wall and call it art.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb by saying the Sea that Kurosawa must have envisioned had to be a whole lot more compelling and focused than the one now delivered by veteran director Kei Kumai.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
[A]delightful and surprisingly feminist film.
The Hollywood Reporter
Richard James Havis
An undistinguished affair.
E! Online
Those who delight in small-scale virtues may find their interest held by the meticulous detail that Kumai lavishes on various Japanese rituals -- everything from pouring tea to holding swords. Everyone else, however, need not check in.
San Francisco Chronicle
C.W. Nevius
It is a little like following a Jane Austen novel.
Seattle Times
Erik Lundegaard
[T]here were times when The Sea is Watching bored me. But Kumai and Kurosawa won me back with the final scenes, which are stark and beautiful, and a fitting finale for one of the world's great filmmakers.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
An absorbing slice of a lost world that's actually very reminiscent of Kurosawa's underappreciated 1957 film, The Lower Depths.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The Sea Is Watching most likely wouldn't have made it to New York if not for the Kurosawa connection. That link is also the main reason to see it.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
There's plenty to appreciate here but the story is tedious and some of the overacting runs into cultural translation problems.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It has a softer edge than the master probably would have delivered, but it is deeply affecting and recalls the Kumai film best known in the U.S., the 1974 Sandakan 8.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
Though formally beautiful, Sea Is Watching is remarkably trite in comparison to the great Japanese films on the subject.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
Kurosawa's script, with its lyrical mix of metaphors and signature moments of song, will at the very least remind you of his greatness.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
At times this material is simple nearly to the point of simple-mindedness. But the movie isn't dumb, though it is dismaying to discover that even Kurosawa had an unfilmed script romanticizing the need of prostitutes for love.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Despite a hopelessly corny score, the movie is redeemed by a goofily touching final scene.
Village Voice
Ed Park
The formidable lineage, alas, doesn't make for a compelling work.
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