The Sea Is Watching

The Sea Is Watching (Japanese: 海は見ていた, Hepburn: Umi wa Miteita) is a 2002 Japanese romance drama film directed by Kei Kumai, based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, which was adapted from two separate novels by Shūgorō Yamamoto.^[1][2][3] It is Kurosawa's final screen credit, as well as Kumai's final film.

Directed byKei Kumai

Screenplay by

• Akira Kurosawa
• Kei Kumai

Based on

Nanno hana ka kaoru
by

• Shūgorō Yamamoto
• Tsuyu no hinu ma
• Shūgorō Yamamoto

Produced by

• Kōshirō Andō
• Sunobu Horigome
• Haruyuki Machida
• Kōichi Miyagawa
• Yūji Oda
• Naoto Sarukawa
• Hajime Satomi
• Shigehiro Toriyama
• Hirotake Yoda

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The Sea Is Watching
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Directed by	Kei Kumai
Screenplay by	Akira Kurosawa Kei Kumai
Based on	Nanno hana ka kaoru by Shūgorō Yamamoto Tsuyu no hinu ma Shūgorō Yamamoto
Produced by	Kōshirō Andō Sunobu Horigome Haruyuki Machida Kōichi Miyagawa Yūji Oda Naoto Sarukawa Hajime Satomi Shigehiro Toriyama Hirotake Yoda
Starring	Misa Shimizu Nagiko Tōno Masatoshi Nagase Hidetaka Yoshioka
Cinematography	Kazuo Okuhara
Edited by	Osamu Inoue
Music by	Teizo Matsumura
Distributed by	Nikkatsu TriStar Pictures (USA)
Release date	27 July 2002 (2002-07-27) (Japan)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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