Glassy Ocean

Nov 14, 1998

0h 23m

★ 6.7

Overview

On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.

Genres

Animation

Fantasy

Production Companies

Project Team Sara

Glassy Ocean Trailers

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Cast

Ocean Floor Man

Eric Jacobsen

Alcoholic Philosopher

Hiroyuki Aoki

Old Man

Ichiro Nagai

Boy

Kento Ogasawara

Human Building (voice)

Masaharu Satô

Narrator

Masatoshi Nagase

Spear Man

Masayuki Terashima

Artist R

Noboru Mitani

Lime Student

Shinichi Tsuda

Dreaming Man

Takeshi Toshishige

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