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Ocean Waves

PG
Movie
1993
1h 12m
Japanese
Animation, Drama, Romance
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
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Nobuo Tobita
Taku Morisaki (voice)
Youko Sakamoto
Rikako Mutou (voice)
Toshihiko Seki
Yutaka Matsuno (voice)
Yuri Amano
Akiko Shimizu (voice)
Kae Araki
Yumi Kohama (voice)
Junichi Kanemaru
Okada (voice)
Ai Satou
Taku's Mother (voice)
Aya Hisakawa
Young Girl (voice)
Tomokazu Seki
Minarai (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
Tadashi Yamao (voice)
Sumi Shimamoto
Rikako's Father's Lover (voice)
Reiko Suzuki
Mrs. Okami (voice)
Kinryu Arimoto
Rikako's Father (voice)
Takeshi Watabe
Principle (voice)
Ako Mayama
Additional Voices (voice)
Directed By: Tomomi Mochizuki
Written By: Keiko Niwa (Screenplay), Saeko Himuro (Novel)

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nutmac says...
7 years ago
As a "made for TV" production with limited budget and time, created by junior staff of animators and creative folks, **Ocean Waves** is not a typical Studio Ghibli production. The animation is still very good, with great set design and character animation. But it lacks subtle details that makes our jaws drop. Music is another casualty, unmemorable synthesizer score that I found distracting. But to me, the most important things are the story and voice acting. And they are fantastic with a great deal of realism. It's Truffaut's **Jules and Jim** meets **From Up On Poppy Hill**. Due to short runtime (a barely over an hour long when you exclude opening and closing credits), each character is not as richly developed as I wanted. And the conclusion is rushed, leaving me wanting more. But what's on the screen works exceedingly well and I really felt for 3 principle characters.
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Adafeloz says...
5 years ago
The girl introduces him to her father as his "boyfriend" out of nowhere and he doesn't even object? Not even weirded out by it? Lol. She acted like a bitch the whole time, lied to and used those around her, and the MC still says he was in love with her all along. Wtf even was this
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dgw says...
9 years ago
Beautiful story, let down a bit by production limitations (mostly music—synthesis in places where real instruments were called for). Worth a watch, though. It's Ghibli, so you really can't go wrong.
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Miratrix says...
3 months ago
This was a love story? If you say so. The animation was great. The story...kinda boring. Rikako had no chemistry with any of them. Honestly, this should have been told for form her prospective.
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