The Sea Is Watching
DramaRomance
5.7/10
|JP
|ja
|119 min
Release Date: 2002-07-27
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.
Production Companies
Nikkatsu CorporationSony PicturesTV TokyoSammySony PCLAII Inc.
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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...
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