Umi wa miteita (2002)

Director:

Kei Kumai

Writers:

Kei Kumai (screenplay)
Akira Kurosawa (original screenplay)

Release Date:

27 July 2002 (Japan)

Genre:

Romance | Drama

Plot:

19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke...

Plot Keywords:

Brothel | Prostitute | Samurai | Rescue | Flood

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

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
Rikiya Ôtaka	...	Boy
Kumiko Tsuchiya	...	Prostitute
Renji Ishibashi	...	Zenbei
Eiji Okuda	...	Ginji
Teru Satô

Also Known As:

The Sea Is Watching (USA)
The Sea's Been Watching (Japan) (literal English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some sexuality.

Runtime:

119 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Australia:MA | Germany:12 | Sweden:7 | USA:R | Argentina:16

Company:

Nikkatsu

Trivia:

The literal translation of the title is "The Sea Was Watching".

A Feast of Cinema

A wonderful film to watch with astonishing scenes and talented actors, such as Misa Shimizu and Nagiko Tono. After 15 minutes of watching, your eyes get locked on the screen and you do nothing but breathing in the atmosphere of the film waiting what the destiny will bring to the characters. This film makes you leave your position as a standard audience, it takes you in, it makes you a part of the story... Costumes and settings are brilliant; especially the district of the okiyas is skillfully built. It is definitely not very Akira Kurosawa, however it still gets a lot from the master, especially the stylistic story telling tells us we're in a distinguished land of cinema which is quite far from hollywoodish flamboyance.