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Ocean Waves

Ocean Waves

Animation · Drama · Romance · 1993

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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Ocean Waves

1993 Animation · Drama · Romance 1h 12m

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TMDB

6.4 / 10

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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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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Tomomi Mochizuki

Written by

Keiko Niwa

Nobuo Tobita

Nobuo Tobita

Taku Morisaki (voice)

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Yoko Sakamoto

Rikako Muto (voice)

Toshihiko Seki

Toshihiko Seki

Yutaka Matsuno (voice)

Yuri Amano

Yuri Amano

Akiko Shimizu (voice)

Kae Araki

Kae Araki

Yumi Kohama (voice)

Jun'ichi Kanemaru

Jun'ichi Kanemaru

Okada (voice)

Ai Satou

Ai Satou

Taku's Mother (voice)

Court is in session

Put Ocean Waves on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.