The Sea Is Watching (2002)
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58% of critics liked it
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73% of users liked it
(1,301 ratings)
Kei Kumai's Umi Wa Miteita (The Sea Watches) has a script written by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno) is a geisha. One day a samurai named Fusanosuke (Hidetaka Yoshioka) appears in her town on the run after having killed a man. She assists him by cutting his hair.… More Kei Kumai's Umi Wa Miteita (The Sea Watches) has a script written by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno) is a geisha. One day a samurai named Fusanosuke (Hidetaka Yoshioka) appears in her town on the run after having killed a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. The two fall in love, despite the protestations from O-Shin's friend Kikuno (Misa Shimizu). Eventually Fusanosuke leaves, only to return one day and reveal that he is engaged. The second half of the film involves O-Shin again falling in love with a samurai, this one named Ryosuke (Masatoshi Nagase). The Sea Watches was screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Directed By
- Kei Kumai
- Written By
- Akira Kurosawa
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International
R,
- In Theaters
- Jun 5, 2003 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It has been directed by Kei Kumai as a film that seems more melodramatic and sentimental than Kurosawa's norm.
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Filled with love and melancholy, it's a fitting, fond epilogue to [Kurosawa].
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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News
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.
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Richard James Havis, Hollywood Reporter
An undistinguished affair.
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C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle
It is a little like following a Jane Austen novel.
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Cast
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Misa Shimizu
as Kikuno
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Nagiko Tohno
as O-Shin
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Masatoshi Nagase
as Ryosuke
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Hidetaka Yoshioka
as Fusanosuke
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Renji Ishibashi
as Zenbei
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Yumiko Nogawa
as Omine
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Michiko Kawai
as Osono
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Eiji Okuda
as Ginji
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Yukiya Kitamura
as Kenta
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Miho Tsumiki
as Okichi
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Tenshi Kamogawa
as Umekichi
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Kumiko Tsuchiya
as Prostitute
- Nagiko Tono
