Ocean Waves | 海がきこえる Animezing!

Drama

Presented by JICC, Embassy of Japan

11 MAY 2018 FRI., 6:30 PM JICC


Rarely seen outside of Japan, Ocean Waves is a subtle, poignant and wonderfully detailed story of adolescence and teenage isolation.

Taku and his best friend Yutaka are headed back to school for what looks like another uneventful year. But they soon find their friendship tested by the arrival of Rikako, a beautiful new transfer student from Tokyo whose attitude vacillates wildly from flirty and flippant to melancholic. When Taku joins Rikako on a trip to Tokyo, the school erupts with rumors, and the three friends are forced to come to terms with their changing relationships.

Ocean Waves was the first Studio Ghibli film directed by someone other than studio founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, as director Tomomi Mochizuki led a talented staff of younger employees in an adaptation of Saeko Himuro’s best-selling novel. Full of shots bathed in a palette of pleasingly soft pastel colors and rich in the unexpected visual details typical of Studio Ghibli’s most revered works, Ocean Waves is an accomplished teenage drama and a true discovery.

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ABOUT THE SCREENWRITER

Keiko Niwa, an editor and screenwriter, began her career at Tokuma Shoten working on the Animage magazine with Toshio Suzuki. After Suzuki moved to Studio Ghibli, he asked Keiko to write the screenplay for Ocean Waves (1993), a TV anime film. Since then, Keiko has co-written the screenplays for other Ghibli films such as Tales from Earthsea (2006), The Secret World of Arrietty (2010), From Up on Poppy Hill (2011), and When Marnie Was There (2014).

In Japanese with English subtitles | Rated PG-13 | 72 min | 1993 | Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki

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