Synopsis
Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel. While travelling together, Misuki sees, touches and feels what Yusuke did for those 3 years.
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Cast
- Eri FukatsuMizuki
- Tadanobu AsanoYusuke
- Masao KomatsuMr. Shimakage
- Nozomi MuraokaFujie
- Kaoru OkunukiKaoru Hoshiya
- Masaaki AkahoriTakashi
- Chiba TetsuyaJinnai
- Daiki FujinoRyota
- Kana Matsumoto
- Sora Ishii
Recommendations
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The Film Stage
Journey to the Shore barely functions as a genre picture. If anything, it’s far more akin to Tokyo Sonata than Cure or Pulse. - 70
Variety
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. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 50
Screen Daily
Kurosawa remains a master of twilight-zone atmosphere, but this extended metaphor for the grieving process relies too heavily on ambience alone. - 50
Slant Magazine
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. - 42
The Playlist
Not wondrous enough to be likened to a ghost, "Journey to the Shore" is the corpse of a film: lifeless, bloodless, insensate.
