Oct 07, 1994
72 min
Full-HD

Ocean Waves (1994)

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...

Category

Animation Drama Romance TV Movie

Country

Japan

Companies

Studio Ghibli Tokuma Shoten J.C.STAFF Nippon Television Network Corporation

Nobuo Tobita

Taku Morisaki (voice)

Youko Sakamoto

Rikako Mutou (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)

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