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Ocean Waves
Sign in to saveAlso known as I Can Hear the Sea, Umi ga Kikoeru
1993 anime television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki
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6.4At 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...
Cast
- Nobuo Tobita as Taku Morisaki (voice)
- Yoko Sakamoto as Rikako Muto (voice)
- Toshihiko Seki as Yutaka Matsuno (voice)
- Yuri Amano as Akiko Shimizu (voice)
- Kae Araki as Yumi Kohama (voice)
- Jun'ichi Kanemaru as Okada (voice)
Themes
- friendship
- surrealism
- love
- tokyo, japan
- falling in love
- high school reunion
- unspoken love
- anime
- ambiguous
- disgusted
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Anime · MyAnimeList
The Ocean Waves
- Score
- 6.54/10 (84,522 votes)
- Rank
- #7538
- Popularity
- #1774
- Type
- TV Special
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studios
- Studio Ghibli
In the city of Kouchi, high school student Taku Morisaki is going about his work when his friend Yutaka Matsuno calls and asks him to get to their school as soon as possible. Taku arrives, and Matsuno introduces him to Rikako Muto, a beautiful girl from Tokyo who recently transfe…
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Key facts
- Genre
- Romantic drama Coming-of-age
- Written by
- Saeko Himuro
- Illustrated by
- Katsuya Kondō
- Published by
- Tokuma Shoten
- Magazine
- Animage
- Original run
- February 1990 – January 1992
- Directed by
- Tomomi Mochizuki
- Produced by
- Nozomu Takahashi, Toshio Suzuki , Seiji Okuda
- Music by
- Shigeru Nagata
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli
- Licensed by
- AUS : Madman Entertainment NA : GKIDS UK : StudioCanal UK
- Original network
- Nippon TV
- Released
- May 5, 1993
- Runtime
- 72 minutes
- Published
- May 31, 1995
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 72
- FilmAffinity ID
- 747473
Show 3 more facts
- publication date
- 1994-07-13
- title
- 海がきこえる
- review score
- 73/100
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Article
Ocean Waves, known in Japan as I Can Hear the Sea, is a 1993 Japanese anime coming-of-age romantic drama television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Keiko Niwa (credited as Kaoru Nakamura) based on the 1990–1992 novel of the same name by Saeko Himuro. Animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten and the Nippon Television Network, Ocean Waves first aired on May 5, 1993, on Nippon TV. The film is set in the city of Kōchi, and follows a love triangle that develops between two good friends and a new girl who transfers to their high school from Tokyo.
Ocean Waves was an attempt by Studio Ghibli to allow their younger staff members to make a film reasonably cheaply. However, it ended up going both over budget and over schedule. In 1995, a sequel to the novel, I Can Hear the Sea II: Because There Is Love, was published. In the same year, a TV drama was produced mainly based on this work starring Shinji Takeda and Hitomi Satō.