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This is good to see on tv
Puppies yapping to go out early in the morning left me nothing to do as it was too late to go back to bed. So like most sleepy people I sat and watched television. Lucky for me this was on. <
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>The scenes were breathtaking, simple but pleasing to the eye. Very colorful. Indeed, I enjoyed the color being so abundant. The sets and costumes very colorful and historicly accurate. It is an excellant period piece. Much much better than Tom Cruise's poltically correct and anti-American The Last Samurai. The characters of this film are quite human and easy to identify. <
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>Unhappy being stuck in her 'profession.' Pretty but ill equipped for so mercenary a trade. To say she gives her heart is innacurate. Inaccurate because one does not pick in love. The heart is not given but falls from one's soul into another's lap. <
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>Fortunately, the ending is happy rather than tragic. <
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>I must admit I wish there had been a couple of scenes with europeans. I must admit I love the secenes of cultures clash when Round Eyed barbarians are first encountered. It's like aliens from Mars landing in Time Square type shock. <
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>But overall, this was an excellant film. A good period film. A nice drama. An excellant study of human beings. Most pleasing to the eye. <
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Beautiful film unmasking the human spirit!
This is a beautiful film. Looking beyound outward form, it sees the intent of the human heart. With the masterful backdrop of a Japanese Brothel in the Edo Period, Akira Kurosawa again reveals the genius that made him the most celebrated director in Japan. Kei Kumai preserves the spirit of Kurosawa. This film indeed is a wonderful tribute to his life and work. I highly recommend it.

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Ode to a Master
My impressions are deep and almost reverential to this Grand piece of literary Movement. Most of the visuals and camera work is a departure from Kurosawa, but it is the spirit and incredible delicacy of this film that took me. It showed how the Maestros intricate notes were firmly interpreted. You follow the story line like that of a play, sitting front and center, yet feeling you are part of this unfolding beauty as the observer. I love a film that will draw me in. This film not only drew me in, it wrapped me with its parabolic interludes. I could not stay just as the observer but felt and interactive dynamic with the characters. The message to me was clear that the great director left us with...He was a feminist in the most human sense. And man must look at himself through the female...thus the title...The Sea is Watching. This was like a large mirror from Kurosawa's cinematic mind transposed to screen reflecting that feminine flavor. I was simply amazed. Watch and allow your eyes to feast.