The Sea and Poison (film) explained

The Sea and Poison
Director:	Kei Kumai
Starring:	Eiji Okuda Ken Watanabe
Runtime:	123 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

is a 1986 Japanese film directed by Kei Kumai and based on a novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo.^[1] It tells the true story of downed American pilots in World War II who are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments at Unit 731.

The film has never been released on home video outside of Japan and has never been released with an English translation.^[2] Unofficial translations exist online^[3] and can be legally watched with an original Japanese DVD using computer software that allows custom subtitles.

Cast

• Eiji Okuda as Suguro
• Ken Watanabe as Toda
• Takahiro Tamura as Professor Hashimoto
• Kyōko Kishida as Ohba, Head Nurse
• Mikio Narita as Shibata
• Shigeru Kōyama as Gondo
• Toshie Negishi as Ueda, Nurse
• Ken Nishida as Asai
• Masumi Okada as Hattori
• Noriko Sengoku as Old woman
• as Murai
• Masane Tsukayama as Miyasaka

Awards

37th Berlin International Film Festival^[4]

• Jury Grand Prix

41st Mainichi Film Award^[5]

• Best Film

Notes and References

1. Web site: 映画監督の熊井啓氏が死去. Fuji Sankei Shinbun. 2 November 2019.
2. Web site: YESASIA: Umi to Dokuyaku (Japan Version) DVD - Negishi Kie, Tamura Takahiro, Geneon Universal Entertainment - Japan Movies & Videos - Free Shipping - North America Site.
3. Web site: The Sea and Poison subtitles English . www.opensubtitles.com . 8 January 2019 . en.
4. Web site: Berlinale: 1987 Prize Winners . 2011-03-03 . berlinale.de . 19 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150319040034/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/03_preistr_ger_1987/03_Preistraeger_1987.html . dead .
5. Web site: Japan-movie . ja:41 1986年. 2010-12-15. ja. japan-movie.net.