The Sea Is Watching (2002)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Drama, Romance
Release: 2002-07-27
Director: Kei Kumai
Writers: Kei Kumai , Akira Kurosawa , Shûgorô Yamamoto
Language: Japanese
Stars: Misa Shimizu , Nagiko Tôno , Masatoshi Nagase , Hidetaka Yoshioka , Miho Tsumiki , Michiko Kawai , Yumiko Nogawa , Tenshi Kamogawa , Yukiya Kitamura , Takayuki Katô
Runtime: 119 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: The Sea Is Watching (Netherlands the) , The Sea Is Watching (United States of America) , Das Meer kommt (Germany) , The Sea Is Watching (Finland) , El mar que nos mira (Spain) , Морето гледа (Bulgaria) , Il mare e l'amore (Italy) , The Sea Watches (Sweden) , The Sea Is Watching , The Sea's Been Watching (Japan) , Лишь море знает (Russian Federation) , Umi wa miteita , El mar que nos mira , Damas del mar (Argentina) , Sob o Olhar do Mar (Brazil) , The Sea Is Watching (Sweden) , Η γκέισα και ο σαμουράι (Greece) , Morze przygląda się (Poland) , Figyel a tenger (Hungary) , 海は見ていた (Japan)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0316829