The Sea Is Watching (2003) - Rotten Tomatoes

The Sea Is Watching2003

The Sea Is Watching (2003)

TOMATOMETER

56%
54%

AUDIENCE SCORE

70%

Critic Consensus: No consensus yet.

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Movie Info

Kei Kumai's Umi Wa Miteita (The Sea Watches) has a script written by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno) is a geisha. One day a samurai named Fusanosuke (Hidetaka Yoshioka) appears in her town on the run after having killed a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. The two fall in love, despite the protestations from O-Shin's friend Kikuno (Misa Shimizu). Eventually Fusanosuke leaves, only to return one day and reveal that he is engaged. The second half of the film involves O-Shin again falling in love with a samurai, this one named Ryosuke (Masatoshi Nagase). The Sea Watches was screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

Cast

Misa Shimizu
as Kikuno
Nagiko Tohno
as O-Shin
Nagiko Tono
as Oshin
Masatoshi Nagase
as Ryosuke
Hidetaka Yoshioka
as Fusanosuke
Eiji Okuda
as Ginji
Renji Ishibashi
as Zenbei
Miho Tsumiki
as Okichi
Michiko Kawai
as Osono
Yumiko Nogawa
as Omine
Tenshi Kamogawa
as Umekichi
Yukiya Kitamura
as Kenta
Kumiko Tsuchiya
as Prostitute
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Critic Reviews for The Sea Is Watching

All Critics (27) | Top Critics (13)

It has been directed by Kei Kumai as a film that seems more melodramatic and sentimental than Kurosawa's norm.

October 24, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4
Top Critic

Filled with love and melancholy, it's a fitting, fond epilogue to [Kurosawa].

October 23, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/4
Top Critic

I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb by saying the Sea that Kurosawa must have envisioned had to be a whole lot more compelling and focused than the one now delivered by veteran director Kei Kumai.

July 25, 2003 | Rating: 2/4
Top Critic

An undistinguished affair.

July 22, 2003
Top Critic

It is a little like following a Jane Austen novel.

July 22, 2003 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Top Critic

[T]here were times when The Sea is Watching bored me. But Kumai and Kurosawa won me back with the final scenes, which are stark and beautiful, and a fitting finale for one of the world's great filmmakers.

July 22, 2003 | Rating: 3/4
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Audience Reviews for The Sea Is Watching

Long and boring..

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