The Sea Is Watching

Here's a film that apparently wants to be both a romance and a drama, and it succeeds at being neither. A brothel worker called O-Shin falls for a fugitive samurai she helps hide. It's the sort of film where you just know somebody will be staring forlornly out to sea at the end.

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Kei Kumai directed The Sea Is Watching in 2002. See Kei Kumai's full filmography, where to start with Kei Kumai, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kei Kumai.

The Sea Is Watching was released in 2002 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 119 minutes.