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- Not Rated
- Eureka Entertainment
- 2 h 7 m
- Not Rated
- Eureka Entertainment
- 2 h 7 m
Summary Mizuki’s husband (Yusuke) drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.
Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written By: Kazumi Yumoto, Takashi Ujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Not Rated
- Eureka Entertainment
- 2 h 7 m
- Not Rated
- Eureka Entertainment
- 2 h 7 m
Journey to the Shore
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Summary Mizuki’s husband (Yusuke) drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.
Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written By: Kazumi Yumoto, Takashi Ujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
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4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Journey to the Shore barely functions as a genre picture. If anything, it’s far more akin to Tokyo Sonata than Cure or Pulse.
Fans of Kurosawa’s earlier psycho-thrillers may desire more eeriness and visual panache, but those who’ve accepted the helmer’s conscious change of tune and pace should be gently touched.
Kurosawa allows for a few brief flights of fancy, further abandoning realism for whimsical bursts of glowing color, but otherwise it's a humdrum slog of a voyage.
Kurosawa remains a master of twilight-zone atmosphere, but this extended metaphor for the grieving process relies too heavily on ambience alone.
Too much lethargic, unclear plotting and saccharine melodrama mean the gentle film is seldom as intriguing as its premise, even if Kurosawa as always provides arresting visual moments and has a commanding way of building atmosphere out of stillness.
Not wondrous enough to be likened to a ghost, "Journey to the Shore" is the corpse of a film: lifeless, bloodless, insensate.
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Awards
Asian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Asian Film Festival Barcelona
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
