A Scene at the Sea

Starring:Kuroudo Maki, Hiroko Oshima, Sabu Kawahara, Nenzo Fujiwara, Susumu Terajima, Katsuya Koiso, Toshio Matsui, Yasukazu Ishitani, Naomi Kubota, Tsuyoshi Ohwada, Tatsuya Sugimoto, Meijin Serizawa, Tetsu Watanabe, Keiko Kagimoto, Kengakusha Akiyama
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Description

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by his also deaf girlfriend, he persists against all odds. Though trapped in silence, their expression of love is no less profound. A heartrending masterpiece that, as with Kitano's other films (Sonatine, Fireworks), has a sharp eye for human frailties and a love for the courage of the underdog.

Customer Reviews:

A Beautiful Scene at the Sea........2007-05-28

This is the epitome of takeshi kitano; this is the reason to experience his work. the silent mood of his films are never more expressed than in this masterpiece about a hearing-impared garbage collector named shigeru who dreams of being a surfer. the relationship between he and his also hearing-impared girlfriend takako is decribed wonderfully by the soundtrack provided by joe hisaishi who lets the viewer understand how beautifully sad love and dreams can be. this, above all other kitano films has made me want to cry and laugh at the same time. thank you, mr kitano.

a very decent movie but.......2007-05-09

kind of too long and too simple. there's nothing poetically beautiful of this film, but it's a very decent one. not a tear jerker, nothing too emotional. just a simple story.

Interesting little film.......2006-11-04

Great visuals make this one a real treat, although its not in the same vein as Kitano's yakuza films. As in all of Kitano's work, here he manages to blend all elements of filmmaking: direction, scoring, editing, etc. into a compelling work that is light on plot but nonetheless captures a myriad of emotions.

Dull.......2006-08-14

Truthfully, I found this boring. Still, it must have relaxed me because I sat there watching it not caring that there was a lot of nothing happening. A deaf garbageman finds a broken surf board. He takes it home and fixes it. When it breaks, he buys a good new one. By the end of the movie he can surf and is accepted by the other surfers.

Oh, and a deaf woman his age follows him around in the "correct" 10 paces (or how many steps behind that's proper in Japanese culture) behind him throughout the film.

Even The background music was unexciting but peaceful. New age/Windham Hill stuff.

In my opinion, it's not worth getting unless you use it to try to sleep.

very good.......2006-02-26

maybe not as good as dolls but definitely one of the master's best works

DVD:

DVD

Sphere [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

DVD: Don't Say a Word/Unfaithful

Poliziotti - Das Ehrenwort eines Mafioso