Ocean Waves (1993)

Original title

海がきこえる

Directed by

Tomomi Mochizuki

Cast

Takeda Shinji, Takaoka Saki, Hakamada Yoshihiko, Sato Hitomi, Ishida Junichi, Kurimoto Shinichiro, Suzuki Honami, Nakamura Azusa

Genre

school anime and manga, romance anime

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 984 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two close high school friends find their friendship tested when a new girl transfers from Tokyo. Over time and a trip to the coast, romantic feelings create a quiet love triangle.

gentlenostalgicbittersweetunderstatedmelancholicintimatereflective

What happens

Ocean Waves, known in Japan as I Can Hear the Sea, is a 1993 Japanese anime coming-of-age romantic drama television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Keiko Niwa (credited as Kaoru Nakamura) based on the 1990–1992 novel of the same name by Saeko Himuro. Animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten and the Nippon Television Network, Ocean Waves first aired on May 5, 1993, on Nippon TV. The film is set in the city of Kōchi, and follows a love triangle that develops between two good friends and a new girl who transfers to their high school from Tokyo. Ocean Waves was an attempt by Studio Ghibli to allow their younger staff members to make a film reasonably cheaply. However, it ended up going both over budget and over schedule. In 1995, a sequel to the novel, I Can Hear the Sea II: Because There Is Love, was published. In the same year, a TV drama was produced mainly based on this work starring Shinji Takeda and Hitomi Satō. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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