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Ocean Waves
Rating
3.5 (1)
Release Date
10/9/1993Runtime
72 minsOverview
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...
Status
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JapaneseBudget
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A dreamy high school romance filtered through the haze of nostalgia, where the weight of unspoken feelings lingers longer than the moments themselves. The film moves between past and present, asking whether the connections we treasure truly match the way we remember them.
Mood
WistfulBittersweetRomanticMelancholic
Themes
LoveFriendshipComing of ageMemory
Tone
Tender
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
PainterlyStylized genre
Structure
Framed flashback
Nobuo Tobita
Taku Morisaki (voice)
Yoko Sakamoto
Rikako Mutou (voice)
Toshihiko Seki
Yutaka Matsuno (voice)
Yuri Amano
Akiko Shimizu (voice)
Kae Araki
Yumi Kohama (voice)
Jun'ichi 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)
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