19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful samurai. Oshin hides him from the authorities and falls in love with him, against an older prostitute's, Kikuno's, misgiving. Fusanosuke advises Oshin to cleanse herself by giving up her line of work. Believing falsely that this is a promise for marriage, she turns her customers over to the oth... (Full plot summary below)
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19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful samurai. Oshin hides him from the authorities and falls in love with him, against an older prostitute's, Kikuno's, misgiving. Fusanosuke advises Oshin to cleanse herself by giving up her line of work. Believing falsely that this is a promise for marriage, she turns her customers over to the other prostitutes, who are happy to help her. Funasukoke leaves to be reconciled to his family, but, when he returns, he reveals that he is engaged and is going to marry his fiancé. Some time later a desperate itinerant, Ryosuke, appears and Oshin falls in love again. Meanwhile, an older man asks Kikuno to buy her contract and marry her, but she is entangled with an old abusive customer of hers. One night, while the madam of the brothel is away to thermal baths, a storm hits the area and everybody tries to flee. Ryosuke kills Kikuno's customer who tries to steal madam's money and runs away. Oshin and Kikuno stay at the roof hoping for a rescue from the flood. Ryosuke returns by a boat.
Leave your thoughts about The Sea Is Watching.
| eFilmCritic.comBrian Mckaysad and compelling, yet laced with an underlying message of dignity and hope. Perhaps Kumai is no Kurosawa - but I don't know if Kurosawa could have done it much better. |
| TV GuideKen FoxNot just an engaging melodrama that explores the class conflict and sexual mores of feudal Japan, but a work of extraordinary beauty; you could literally hang any random frame on the wall and call it art. No doubt the master would have been pleased. |
| Boston GlobeJanice PageAs rich and literary a work as you might expect. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThe screen comes alive only at the end, when a frightening tornado destroys the seaside village. |
| Seattle TimesErik Lundegaard[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. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertKurosawa was a great artist and so even his lesser work is interesting -- just as we would love to find one last lost play, however minor, by his hero Shakespeare. |
| eFilmCritic.comDavid CorneliusIt's not only worth seeing as "Kurosawa's last story," but also simply as a good, solid drama. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsBob StraussThough formally beautiful, Sea Is Watching is remarkably trite in comparison to the great Japanese films on the subject. |
| Filmcritic.comJules Brennermore a framed tribute than an involving experience |
| San Francisco ChronicleC.W. NeviusAn unusually cheerful depiction of prostitution. You've never seen such wholesome hookers. |
