Journey to the Shore

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Journey to the Shore

2015

2h 7m

Drama

Fantasy

Romance

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Mizuki's husband returns home three years after he drowned.

Critics Consensus

Best processed as an elliptical dream, Journey to the Shore's conceptual romance may be ethereal but mostly stays adrift.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

08/10/2016

3/5

The cinematography by Akiko Ashizawa ensures that their vacation is always lovely to behold, but almost everything else about this odd, elliptical drama is frustrating.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

05/19/2016

3/5

Overall the tone is one of quotidian melancholy, emphasising how people cope with grief by getting on with working, cooking and taking long walks, as if Yasujiro Ozu had made an episode of that TV show The Ghost Whisperer.

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David Jenkins

Little White Lies

05/19/2016

2/5

A neat concept, but dull as all hell.

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

11/02/2022

2.5/5

The best thing about the film is the naturalness with which the living and the dead converse and bond. The worst, the... distant tone chosen by an almost unrecognizable, as of today, Kiyoshi Kurosawa. [Full review in Spanish]

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Pieter-Jan Van Haecke

Psychocinematography

05/13/2022

With Journey To The Shore, Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivers an elegant and touching exploration of arrested mourning...

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C.J. Prince

Way Too Indie

05/30/2019

5/10

Watching Journey to the Shore is similar to watching an EKG machine show a few beeps before flatlining. I don't want to say goodbye to Kurosawa, but like Mizuki, perhaps it's time to finally let go.

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04/24/2020

I feel like having been on a trip to Japan, and am moved by the theme, actors and pictures- Yes, it is very slow, but under these circumstances I am enjoy it.

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12/07/2016

Beautifully shot, but a little too surreal for its own good.

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Director

Eri Fukatsu

Mizuki

Tadanobu Asano

Yusuke

Yû Aoi

Matsuzaki

Tetsuya Chiba

Jinnai

Akira Emoto

Hoshitani

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Synopsis

Mizuki's husband returns home three years after he drowned.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Producer: Masa Sawada
Screenwriter: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Ujita
Production Co: Pony Canyon, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures Inc., WoWow Inc., Amuse, Comme des Cinémas, Office Shirous
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 2h 7m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)