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]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 2, 2022

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

| May 13, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 30, 2019

Evidently, this is a genuine art-house film, meaning that the action is almost completely absent. However, it is a work of true beauty and elaborateness, a lyrical poem regarding love and its absence, and the grief that results from it.

| Apr 6, 2019

Journey to the Shore is a touching love story with a twist that is a nice change of pace for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa and it shows that he still has his directorial skills intact.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 30, 2018

The lax pace and tone become so diffuse and diaphanous that the finer points of its story are obscured.

| Sep 26, 2017

It's an intriguingly different take on the supernatural, with Eri Fukatsu and Tadanobu Asano appealing as the leads, but Kurosawa draws it out to the point of tedium. An overemphatic score doesn't help either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2016

Kurosawa manages to render his canonical obsessions of haunting, mourning and existentialism with deft, sublime cinematography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2016

It's a little slow, and self-consciously so, which viewers may find frustrating, but it's emotionally engaging, moving and beautifully performed, and a journey worth taking.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2016

A slow-burning but romantic epic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2016

It's kind, moving, and nicely done.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2016

Cinematographer Akiko Ashizawa's use of light and texture should be applauded as much as Fukatsu's touching performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2016

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 온라인카지노추천 show The Ghost Whisperer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2016

A neat concept, but dull as all hell.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2016

The final product stops short of being genuinely haunting, but its sensitive performances and mournful melancholia linger long in the mind.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 6, 2016

While it's easy to see the film as reflecting the fear of mortality from the men, the film's female perspective emerges as the actual emotional core.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 20, 2016

The film remains too pallid and diffuse, the development of its mood and characters suffering as a result.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2015

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.

| Sep 15, 2015

A supernatural romantic road movie takes an initially intriguing but ultimately dead-end route.

| Sep 15, 2015