Ocean Waves

海がきこえる (1993)

Timing: 1:12 (72 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1993-10-09

Country

Japan

Production

Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokuma Shoten, J.C.STAFF

Genre

Animation, Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

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Director

Tomomi Mochizuki

Actors

Nobuo Tobita, Youko Sakamoto, Toshihiko Seki, Yuri Amano, Kae Araki, Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Ai Satou, Aya Hisakawa, Tomokazu Seki, Hikaru Midorikawa
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Michio Yokoo, Shinichiro Maeda, Toru Horikoshi, Toshio Suzuki, Nozomu Takahashi

Operator

Atsushi Okui

Composer

Shigeru Nagata

Artist

Audition

Editing

All team (33)

• Tomomi Motizuki is a big fan of Saeko Himuro's work, the author of popular teenage love stories. Therefore, he immediately suggested adapting her work for the screen. Himuro's story was published in the magazine "Animage," and its illustrator was Katsuya Kondo (the film's character designer). Later, Himuro wrote a sequel to the story, and both parts were adapted into a feature film.
• When Motizuki received an offer to create a film at Studio Ghibli, he had already agreed to work on the series "Greenwood." Since both projects were of interest to him, Motizuki immediately started working on both. As a result, he became so overworked that he ended up in the hospital.
• This is the only anime by Studio Ghibli that did not involve Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki.
• During the last school festival, when Rikako's classmates were selling noodles and discussing Rikako's absence again, as the camera pulls back in the lower right corner of the screen, the back of Porco Rosso – the main character of the 1992 animated film "Porco Rosso" – is visible.
• Tomomi Motizuki is a big fan of Saeko Himuro's work, the author of popular teenage love stories. Therefore, he immediately proposed adapting her work for the screen. Himuro's story was published in the magazine "Animage," and its illustrator was Kondo Katsuya (the film's character designer). Later, Himuro wrote a sequel to the story, and both parts were adapted into a feature film.
• When Motizuki received an offer to create a film at Studio Ghibli, he had already agreed to work on the series "Greenwood." Because both projects were interesting to him, Motizuki started working on both at once. As a result, he became so overworked that he ended up in the hospital.
• During the last school festival, when Rikako's classmates were selling noodles and discussing Rikako's absence again, as the camera pulls back, the back of Porco Rosso – the main character of the 1992 animated film "Porco Rosso" – is visible in the lower right corner of the screen.