A Scene at the Sea
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| Directed by | Takeshi Kitano |
| Produced by | Masayuki Mori |
| Written by | Takeshi Kitano |
| Starring | Claude Maki Hiroko Oshima Sabu Kawahara Susumu Terajima Katsuya Koiso Testsu Watanabe |
| Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
| Cinematography | Katsumi Yanagijima |
| Editing by | Takeshi Kitano |
| Distributed by |  Office Kitano / Totsu EnterOne |
| Release date(s) | October 19, 1991 |
| Running time | 101 minutes |
| Language | Japanese |
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A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海 Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi?, "That summer, the calmest ocean") is a 1991 Japanese film written and directed by Takeshi Kitano.
This movie was a break from previous Kitano fare in that it features no gangsters. Instead it presents a simple story about a deaf garbage collector, played by Claude Maki, who is determined to learn how to surf—and does so almost at the expense of the girl he loves.
Kitano's more delicate, romantic side came to the fore here, along with his trademark deadpan approach. The Japanese film maker will direct a similar movie in 2002, Dolls wich is a romantic tale about three lovers pair parallel stories.
Office Kitano talent, Claude Maki, who plays the, mute main character went on to appear in a later Kitano movie, Brother as Ken, a Japanese-American punk who will soon become leader of a Yakuza clan. In Brother, Claude mostly speak in American-English with some occasional Japanese speech.
This film is the first collaboration between Kitano and the musician, composer, Joe Hisaishi who had previously created the acclaimed soundtracks of Hayao Miyazaki's animes, including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. After A Scene at the Sea, Hisaishi has composed all the OST for all of Kitano's films (except the command movie Zatoichi).
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