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The Sea Is Watching

Umi wa miteita

Sony Pictures (2002)

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043396015753

7.0

1,677

Drama | Foreign | Romance

Japan | Japanese | Color | 01:59

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Akira Kurosawa's Final Tale of Love

Set in a 19th-century brothel, The Sea is Watching is the story of a beautiful young geisha, O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno), who harbors a samurai (Hidetaka Yoshioka) seeking refuge. Falling in love with O-Shin, the samurai hopes to cleanse her of the sins of her profession. But fate and fortune conspire to keep the lovers apart. When another young man appears, a thunderous storm strikes their village. What, if anything, will survive nature's fury?

This stunning epic was the final film written by legendary director Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai,, Ran). Hand-picked by Kurosawa's son, director Kei Kumai delivers a visually striking love story for the ages.

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	Misa Shimizu	Kikuno
	Nagiko Tono	Oshin
	Masatoshi Nagase	Ryôsuke
	Hidetaka Yoshioka	Fusanosuke
	Miho Tsumiki	Okichi
	Michiko Kawai	Osono
	Yumiko Nogawa	Omine
	Tenshi Kamogawa	Umekichi
	Yukiya Kitamura	Gonta
	Takayuki Katô
	Kumiko Tsuchiya	Prostitute
	Rikiya Otaka	Boy
	Renji Ishibashi	Zenbei
	Eiji Okuda	Ginji
	Teru Satō
	Kenta Satô
	Ayaka Fujii
	Shûji Ôtsuki
	Yukino Mogi
	Miki Hayashida
	Ryô Kataoka
	Toki Koinuma
	Kojirô
	Nami Asô
	Hiroshi Ôkawa

Crew View all

Director	Kei Kumai
Writer	Kei Kumai, Akira Kurosawa, Shugoro Yamamoto
Producer	Kôshirô Andô, Sunobu Horigome, Hisao Kurosawa, Haruyuki Machida, Kôichi Miyagawa, Masaya Nakamura, Yûji Oda, Naoto Sarukawa, Hajime Satomi, Shigehiro Toriyama, Hirotake Yoda
Musician	Teizô Matsumura
Photography	Kazuo Okuhara

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Edition details

Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks	JAPANESE: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles	Chinese \| English \| Korean \| Portuguese \| Spanish \| Thai
Layers	Single side, Single layer
Edition Release Date	Nov 18, 2003
Regions	1