It is a pleasant enough film and with a sad deaf garbage guy and deaf girl he hangs around with. Takeshi Kitano his first as director was Violent Cop (1989) and Boiling Point (1990) then takes a step down with a couple just looking at the sea and dreaming of surfing. The two go a little more but it is not much more without much talking and maybe Kitano perhaps had wondered how slow he could have let the story go without it all. He certainly has good control of film and it seems to be that this helped him get it completely controlled when he was able to make the fantastic Hani-Bi (1997) when he takes his unwell wife on the final trip.
Review of A Scene at the Sea
