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The Sea Is Watching
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The Sea Is Watching 2002 Directed by Kei Kumai 海は見ていた

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.

Country Japan
Production Country Japan
Language Japanese
Spoken Language Japanese
Gneres Drama , Romance
Release Date 27 July 2002
119 mins
Cast
Misa Shimizu
Misa Shimizu Kikuno
Nagiko Tono
Nagiko Tono O-Shin
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Hidetaka Yoshioka Fusanosuke
Eiji Okuda
Eiji Okuda Ginji
Miho Tsumiki
Miho Tsumiki Okichi
Masatoshi Nagase
Masatoshi Nagase Ryosuke
Michiko Kawai
Michiko Kawai Osono
Yumiko Nogawa
Yumiko Nogawa Omine
Tenshi Kamogawa
Tenshi Kamogawa Umekichi
Yukiya Kitamura
Yukiya Kitamura Gonta
Takayuki Katô
Takayuki Katô
Kumiko Tsuchiya
Kumiko Tsuchiya Prostitute
Rikiya Ôtaka
Rikiya Ôtaka Boy
Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi Zenbei
Crew
Director
Kei Kumai
Kei Kumai
Writers
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
Kei Kumai
Kei Kumai
Producers
Masaya Nakamura
Masaya Nakamura
Kôshirô Andô
Kôshirô Andô
Sunobu Horigome
Sunobu Horigome
Hisao Kurosawa
Hisao Kurosawa
Haruyuki Machida
Haruyuki Machida
Kôichi Miyagawa
Kôichi Miyagawa
Yuji Oda
Yuji Oda
Naoto Sarukawa
Naoto Sarukawa
Hajime Satomi
Hajime Satomi
Shigehiro Toriyama
Shigehiro Toriyama
Hirotake Yoda
Hirotake Yoda
Cinematography
Kazuo Okuhara
Kazuo Okuhara
Composer
Teizō Matsumura
Teizō Matsumura
Editor
Osamu Inoue
Osamu Inoue
Sound
Takeshi Ogawa
Takeshi Ogawa
Visual Effects
Kazuto Kawazoe
Kazuto Kawazoe
Original Writer
Shūgorō Yamamoto
Shūgorō Yamamoto
Art Direction
Takeo Kimura
Takeo Kimura
Costume Design
Kazuko Kurosawa
Kazuko Kurosawa