Ocean Waves (1994)
Ocean Waves (1994)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Nobuo Tobita
Taku Morisaki (voice)
Youko Sakamoto
Rikako Mutou (voice) / Theme Song Performance
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)
Tomokazu Seki
Minarai (voice)
Hikaru Midorikawa
Tadashi Yamao (voice)
Sumi Shimamoto
Rikako's Father's Lover (voice)
Reiko Suzuki
Mrs. Okami (voice)
Kinryuu Arimoto
Rikako's Father (voice)
Takeshi Watabe
Principle (voice)
Seiji Okuda
Producer
Ako Mayama
Additional Voices (voice)
Toshio Suzuki
Producer
Shigeru Nagata
Original Music Composer
Tomomi Mochizuki
Director
Saeko Himuro
Novel
Michio Yokoo
Producer
Takeshi Seyama
Editor
Toru Horikoshi
Producer
Shinichiro Maeda
Producer
Naoya Tanaka
Art Direction
Katsuya Kondo
Character Designer / Animation Director
Nozomu Takahashi
Executive Producer
Atsushi Okui
Director of Photography
Masaaki Endou
Key Animation
Atsuko Otani
Key Animation
Hideaki Yoshio
Key Animation
Hiroomi Yamakawa
Key Animation
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 7, 1994
Original Name海がきこえる
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 12m
Content RatingPG
Genres
Wiki.
Ocean Waves, known in Japan as I Can Hear the Sea (Japanese: 海がきこえる, Hepburn: Umi ga Kikoeru), is a 1993 Japanese anime coming-of-age romantic drama television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Keiko Niwa (credited as Kaori 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.