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Ocean Waves

Name: Ocean Waves
Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, TV Movie
Released: 1993
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Nobuo Tobita, Yoko Sakamoto, Toshihiko Seki, Yuri Amano, Kae Araki

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...

1993 · Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki · 72 min · Animation · Drama · Romance · TV Movie · 21 frames

Crew

Screenplay: Keiko Niwa
Cinematography: Atsushi Okui
Music: Shigeru Nagata
Produced by: Toshio Suzuki

Cast

Nobuo Tobita as Taku Morisaki (voice)
Yoko Sakamoto as Rikako Muto (voice)
Toshihiko Seki as Yutaka Matsuno (voice)
Yuri Amano as Akiko Shimizu (voice)
Kae Araki as Yumi Kohama (voice)
Jun'ichi Kanemaru as Okada (voice)
Ai Satou as Taku's Mother (voice)
Aya Hisakawa as Young Girl (voice)
Tomokazu Seki as Minarai (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa as Tadashi Yamao (voice)

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Studios: Studio Ghibli, Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Themes: friendship, surrealism, love, tokyo, japan, falling in love, high school reunion, unspoken love, anime, ambiguous, disgusted

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