Studio Ghibli’s feature-length anime OCEAN WAVES will return to theaters in Japan for a limited three-week run starting July 4. Originally aired as a TV special in 1993, the film is being revived as part of a special screening initiative organized by Filmarks. A new poster and trailer have also been released to promote the event.
Official Trailer:
Poster Visual:
STAFF:
Project Concept: Toshio Suzuki, Seiji Okuda
Original Story by: Saeko Himuro
Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Screenplay: Kaori Nakamura
Character Design: Katsuya Kondo
Art Director: Naoya Tanaka
Music: Shigeru Nagata
Animation Production: Studio Ghibli
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.
GKIDS describes OCEAN WAVES as follows:
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.
Source: Comic Natalie
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