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The Sea Is Watching

The Sea Is Watching

5,7 /10 (26 Votes)
2002 JA 119 min

Overview

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.

Release date

27/07/2002

Votes

26

Popularity

1.1

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

海は見ていた

Language

JA

Runtime

119 min

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sitenoise

2016-04-08

The Sea is Watching starts off as an attractive film; rich colors, effective photography, nice framing, fetching prostitutes. Then it goes melodrama, followed by silly, culminating in corny which brought a smile to my face before the surreal kicked in. It never stops looking good, though. There's nothing new or groundbreaking story-wise. It's a charming, sometimes funny, bittersweet tale of the inhabitants of a samurai-era brothel whose entire district ends up under water. Plot-wise it focuses on the love lives of two of the working girls: Kikuno (Misa Shimizu) plays an elder to the younger…

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