The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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Widowed now for close to four years, Anne Osborne, who now operates the antiques shop formerly owned by her husband David, and their son, Jonathan Osborne, live in a small, English seaside town. Both Anne and Jonathan still miss David even after all these years. Going through puberty, Jonathan uses something he finds in his bedroom to explore the emerging thoughts of sexuality going through his mind. Although Anne knows Jonathan sneaks out of the house early in the morning ag... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea:

Sarah Miles
Kris Kristofferson
Jonathan Kahn
Margo Cunningham
Earl Rhodes
Paul Tropea

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Widowed now for close to four years, Anne Osborne, who now operates the antiques shop formerly owned by her husband David, and their son, Jonathan Osborne, live in a small, English seaside town. Both Anne and Jonathan still miss David even after all these years. Going through puberty, Jonathan uses something he finds in his bedroom to explore the emerging thoughts of sexuality going through his mind. Although Anne knows Jonathan sneaks out of the house early in the morning against her orders, she is unaware that he is attending meetings of a secret society of five boys, who refer to each other only by a cardinal number, their rank within the group as assigned by "The Chief", number one. The Chief is an arrogant, sadistic pseudo-intellectual who needs to show his power and dominance over the other four in whatever means possible. He largely considers them immature as he spouts off his Nietzschean philosophies, centering on that adults create rules that ultimately disrupt the natural order of life. When the US based merchant ship the Belle docks in port, Anne and Jonathan meet Second Officer Jim Cameron. Jonathan, who is fascinated by the sea, becomes enamored with what Jim represents to him, the natural order the Chief speaks of, specifically of the sea. Anne becomes romantically involved with Jim while he is in town. Their encounters lead to Jim critically evaluating his life and future. As Jonathan believes Jim may be attempting to disrupt that natural order he so admires, Jonathan believes it is his duty to change Jim back to restore that natural order, and if that is not possible, to correct the impending disorder by whatever means necessary.

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User Review - 10/10 by roger tTo westernize The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, a novel by the late Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, producer Martin Poll and adapter-director Lewis John Carlino changed the Yokohama setting to a seacoast village in Devon. They then teamed England's provocative Sarah Miles with Kris Kristofferson as ill-starred widow and able-bodied American seaman whose headlong sexual collision is no secret to a gang of dangerously precocious British schoolboys. Anglicizing does little to inhibit Mishima's heady blend of romance, eroticism and horror in a movie that takes liberties (occasionally startling ones, even in the present permissive era) to flesh out the unique, decadent spirit of an author, too little known in the west, who was once hailed by The New York Times as "a master of gorgeous and perverse surprises." In story terms, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea combines elements of Last Tango in Paris with the intellectual rigor of Lord of the Flies. Kristofferson's sailor destroys "the perfect order" of existence by forsaking his anchorless life at sea for a sensuous lady - a crime that the woman's son and a band of wayward chums judge punishable by death. The climax of this strangely tangled tale reflects the credo, as well as the kinkiness, of Mishima (a Japanese nationalist who committed hara-kiri in 1970, at the age of 45, to dramatize his political views). Though a self-absorbed, bi-sexual, family man, fanatical bodybuilder (he liked posing nude) and actor in gangster movies, Mishima was also a prolific literary genius who dreaded old age and called hara-kiri "the ultimate masturbation." The first English-language film based on his work catches his undertones of cool violence, played against some of the hottest love scenes in nonporn cinema history, and may prove an exhilerating trip for viewers only now discovering the world of Mishima. During ten weeks of shooting through unreliable English weather in Dartmouth, the community's lady mayor at the time declared herself gratified to find people at work on a "nice family picture." The mayoress, if she ever saw the movie, would've been surprised to learn that Miles, Kristofferson, Carlino and a company of ruddy-cheeked pubescent lads have used a slew of local landmarks as background for a drama richly garnished with sex, sadism, voyeurism, exhibitionism and ritual murder. Thomas Hardy country may never quite be the same after viewing The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. It's lusty co-stars, who all but shiver the timbers in several sequences that add graphic body English to Oriental erotic art. There's been no comparable breakthrough by big-name actors since Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, making it, made a sizzling bedtime story in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now.
User Review - 8/10 by NEMESIS DRemarkable adaptation of a great book by Yukio Mishima, considering it takes place in England instead of Japan.
User Review - 8/10 by David PA fascinating, erotic and utterly bizzare movie that is a unique viewing experience. It crosses into many genres and it is definitely a product of its time. The Japanese origin of the source material, a novel, intersects and clashes nicely with the coastal English setting. There is voyerouism, romance, torrid physical sexuality, an Oediphus complex, existenalist philosophy, animal cruelity, beautiful scenery, intresting interiors, a dark claustorphobic atomosphere even in wide open spaces, haunting tension and a truly unsetteling ending. The film suceeeds on many levels despite shallow characters and erratic pacing; it can be argued that the erratic pacing adds to bizzare texture of the film. Highly recommended for a one of kind viewing experience, it even becomes darkly exhilirating toward the end.
User Review - 8/10 by Jonathan Vthis great movie could only have been made in the 70s.
User Review - 6/10 by Jason Mthe leads r the fuel that makes this one go.
User Review - 6/10 by Todd BA truly strange piece of cinema. Kristofferson really does have a great chest. Worth watching for the cultural reference, but you could probably get by just fine without.
User Review - 4/10 by Frances HThe two stars are for the film's visual beauty, but the plot was just very strange, with a group of school boys led by an animal torturer and future serial killer, no doubt. Somewhat reminds me of Lord of the Flies. Well acted.
User Review - 2/10 by David MMishima's source material is a very good example of post-war Japanese literature. Carlino's film is not such a good movie. The switch from Japan to England is a negligible difference, but the movie suffers from poor direction, bad tone, and laughable zeitgeists. I'm all for adaptations, and I even believe that movie adaptations CAN be better than the books they come from (see: The Secret of Nimh). This isn't the case here. Just read the book.

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