Film

Ocean Waves

1993 · 1h 12m · Animation · Drama · Romance

IMDb

6.6

Rotten Tomatoes

89%

Metacritic

73

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...

Nobuo Tobita

Taku Morisaki (voice)

Yoko Sakamoto

Rikako Muto (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)

Kinryu Arimoto

Rikako's Father (voice)

Takeshi Watabe

Principle (voice)

Ako Mayama

Additional Voices (voice)

Sachiko Mitani

(voice)

• Tomomi MochizukiDirector
• Keiko NiwaScreenplay
• Saeko HimuroNovel
• Toshio SuzukiProducer
• Atsushi OkuiDirector of Photography
• Shigeru NagataOriginal Music Composer

Official Trailer [Subtitled]

Release date

October 9, 1993

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

PG-13

Genres

Animation, Drama, Romance

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