2015 · drama · ghost · romance
Journey to the Shore
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa2h 8m2015
Mizuki's husband Yusuke has been missing for three years. He suddenly comes back home as a ghost and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel.
Our read: Journey to the Shore (2015) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive drama · ghost · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / ghost, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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