The Sea Is Watching (2002)
Umi wa miteita (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Misa Shimizu	...	Kikuno
	Nagiko Tôno	...	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 Ôtaka	...	Boy
	Renji Ishibashi	...	Zenbei
	Eiji Okuda	...	Ginji
	Teru Satô

Storyline

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... Written by Alkistis Zografou  

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