Ocean Waves (1994)

• 72 min

6.4

Directed by: Tomomi Mochizuki
Casting: Nobuo Tobita, Youko Sakamoto, Toshihiko Seki, Yuri Amano, Kae Araki, Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Ai Satou, Aya Hisakawa, Tomokazu Seki, Hikaru Midorikawa, Sumi Shimamoto, Reiko Suzuki, Kinryu Arimoto, Takeshi Watabe, Ako Mayama
Countries: Japan
Premiere: 1994-10-07
Status: Released

Tags: friendship, surrealism, love, tokyo, japan, falling in love, high school reunion, unspoken love, anime, romantic, ambiguous, disgusted

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...