The Ocean Waves
This fragile coming-of-age story about hesitant feelings and first love was created at Studio Ghibli as a groundbreaking project for the young generation of its animators. It does not bear the typical characteristics of the work of the company's founding masters, but is all the more surprising for its unique take on the genre.
- Umi ga kikoeru
- Japan 1993
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- Czech
- 73 min.
- Přístupný
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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