The Sea Is Watching
(2002)
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The Sea Is Watching
(2002)
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Kikuno
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Nagiko Tôno | ... |
Oshin
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Masatoshi Nagase | ... |
Ryôsuke
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Hidetaka Yoshioka | ... |
Fusanosuke
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Miho Tsumiki | ... |
Okichi
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Michiko Kawai | ... |
Osono
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Yumiko Nogawa | ... |
Omine
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Tenshi Kamogawa | ... |
Umekichi
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Yukiya Kitamura | ... |
Gonta
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Takayuki Katô |
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Kumiko Tsuchiya | ... |
Prostitute
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Rikiya Ôtaka | ... |
Boy
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Renji Ishibashi | ... |
Zenbei
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Eiji Okuda | ... |
Ginji
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Teru Satô |
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19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful samurai. Oshin hides him from the authorities and falls in love with him, against an older prostitute's, Kikuno's, misgiving. Fusanosuke advises Oshin to cleanse herself by giving up her line of work. Believing falsely that this is a promise for marriage, she turns her customers over to the other prostitutes, who are happy to help her. Funasukoke leaves to be reconciled to his family, but, when he returns, he reveals that he is engaged and is going to marry his fiancé. Some time later a desperate itinerant, Ryosuke, appears and Oshin falls in love again. Meanwhile, an older man asks Kikuno to buy her contract and marry her, but she is entangled with an old abusive customer of hers. One night, while the madam of the brothel is away to thermal baths, a storm hits the area and everybody tries to flee. ... Written by Alkistis Zografou
The simple story of a timeless truth. A lovely Cinderella-type story. I highly reccomend watching this film with good friends and a bottle of wine. This is a quaint story about a brothel girl in constant throes of unrequetted love from her clients. This happens over and over until the climatic ending of the movie where she is trapped in the brothel by a deadly flood. I saw this movie in my Japanese class. That was the only reason I didn't let myself cry. You will really love this movie.