A vanishing way of life is captured in “The Last of the Sea Women.” Sue Kim’s feature directorial debut trains focus on the haenyeo — female divers associated primarily with Jeju Island off South Korea’s southernmost coast. Operating without oxygen tanks, these women swim to considerable depths in search of seafood whose sale provides their livelihood. But this unique vocation is dying out, a victim of various phenomena—but mostly the lack of new recruits to replenish its aging practitioners. This affectionate and humorous look at an ebbing tradition premieres Friday on Apple TV+, also opening the same date on one Laemmle screen in Los Angeles.
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