The Sea (Kaibatsu) 

Genre: Drama • 80 min • 2018

Japanese Contemporary Film Retrospective

The story revolves around Hiroshi, a timid high school student, who is bullied by two classmates. Hiroshi dreams of getting to a university in order to leave his mundane coastal town and escape his torturing life, but his life changes forever, when his bullies instigate him to lure another classmate of theirs, Rie, into a boat shed in the beach where they rape her. Hiroshi endures then twelve years of anguish for his inability to intervene.


Director

Takahashi Kensei

Cast

Abe Satoshi, Matsuzaki Masaki, Satō Arisa

Language(s)

in Japanese with English/Polish subtitles


Kino Kameralne Cafe - Arthouse Cinema in Gdansk, 08.10.2019, 22:00