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Japan, France · 2015
2h 8m
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Asano, Masao Komatsu, Yu Aoi
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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For 3 years, Mizuki’s husband, Yusuke, was missing. One day, he suddenly comes back home and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him to visit the people who helped him during his previous travels. During their journey, Mizuki reconnects with her husband and herself as she experiences what Yusuke did for those 3 years.
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
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.
The Film Stage by Ethan Vestby
Journey to the Shore barely functions as a genre picture. If anything, it’s far more akin to Tokyo Sonata than Cure or Pulse.
Slant Magazine by Jesse Cataldo
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.
Not wondrous enough to be likened to a ghost, "Journey to the Shore" is the corpse of a film: lifeless, bloodless, insensate.
Screen International by Lee Marshall
Kurosawa remains a master of twilight-zone atmosphere, but this extended metaphor for the grieving process relies too heavily on ambience alone.
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.
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