Kensei TAKAHASHI 高橋賢成
Sea
海抜
Nippon Visions ½
As a teenager, Hiroshi witnessed the rape of his classmate Rie by two class bullies. When he meets them again a few years later, he snaps. Those two events provide the basis for a fragmented portrait of a reclusive loner trying to cope with his past. Kensei TAKAHASHI’s debut deals with complex issues of guilt and atonement and condemns a patriarchal society where perpetrators act like victims.
Winner of the Nippon Visions Jury Award
2019
海抜
Kaibatsu
Japan 2018
80 minutes
Production
Yellow Couple
World sales
Article Films
Cast
Satoshi ABE, Misaki MATSUZAKI, Arisa SATO, Seiya OKUDA, Seijuro MIMORI
About Kensei TAKAHASHI
高橋賢成
Kensei TAKAHASHI was born in 1996 in Kitami, Hokkaido. At the age of ten, he found an old VHS-C camera and began dreaming of a career as a filmmaker. In 2014 he entered the Media Studies Department of Josai International University’s Media Studies Department, where he started producing short and medium length films. SEA is both his graduation project and feature length debut and was selected for the Japanese Cinema Splash section at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival.