Hiroko Oshima, Kurodo Maki, Kuroudo Maki, Sabu Kawahara, Susumu Terajima
Shigeru, a deaf teenage boy, finds a beat up surfboard on the beach and repairs it. He is on the lowest rung of Japanese society, uneducated, disabled and with few prospects. Still, he has a persevera...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 12, 2000
Stats: 83 reviews
A sweet love story and an ode to surfing without the violence that Kitano was, and is, notorious for. Even without a storyline centering around cops and yakuza, the film is distinctly Kitano. The central characters, Shigeru and Takako are deaf, and they do not utter one word of ...( read more)
In the French theatrical version of "A Scene at the Sea", a subtitle is inserted at [xx:yy] which says "Il est devenu Poisson" (he became fish). The subtitle was written by French translator and Japanese film authority Catherine Cadou on the request of Kitano Takeshi. According t...( read more)
A Scene at the Sea is a small film. I like it for the reason that it does not have guns or gore. It has an excellent cast too. But the reason why I love it is for the superb photography with the unbelievably brilliant use of pan! I loved and enjoyed most of the film but the endin...( read more)
no necesita las palabras
1st Office Kitano is a ganador!
mighty fine parallel with this and Achilles
super romance
Capisco che stiamo parlando di Kitano, capisco che il tema trattato è delicato va bene anche la poesia e la delicatezza tipiche del suo stile. Ma è un film inteminabile con pochissimi dialoghi e un improbabile protagonista surfista giapponese. Non mancano immagini e scene di for...( read more)
Beautiful begining and wonderful ending! Plus a perfect score and masterful directing! I'm glad I watched it.It's poetic and mesmerizing.
This movie was beautiful and right up there in line with Dolls. It's another slow love story which has a very happy and sad mood at the same time. Having both the main characters be deaf was very moving as the film involved little words and spent most of it's time developing ch...( read more)
Un film très contemplatif, plein de poésie et de petits moments de bonheur, mais très lent :)
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