Ocean Waves

Oct 9, 1993

1h 12m

★ 6.4

Overview

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...

Genres

Animation

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Studio Ghibli

Tokuma Shoten

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Ocean Waves Trailers

Cast

Taku Morisaki (voice)

Nobuo Tobita

Rikako Mutou (voice)

Yoko Sakamoto

Yutaka Matsuno (voice)

Toshihiko Seki

Akiko Shimizu (voice)

Yuri Amano

Yumi Kohama (voice)

Kae Araki

Okada (voice)

Jun'ichi Kanemaru

Taku's Mother (voice)

Ai Satou

Young Girl (voice)

Aya Hisakawa

Minarai (voice)

Tomokazu Seki

Tadashi Yamao (voice)

Hikaru Midorikawa

Rikako's Father's Lover (voice)

Sumi Shimamoto

Mrs. Okami (voice)

Reiko Suzuki

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