

As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year. Rikako, a girl from Tokyo who joins their class, enthralls Yutaka but attaches herself to Taku. Watch the Official US Trailer for Studio Ghiblis Ocean Waves. They live in what urban Japanese consider the boondocks, the island city Kochi. Despite Rikakos insistence on keeping her distance from her new classmates. The most modest and least celebrated of the films produced by Japan’s peerless Studio Ghibli, Ocean Waves was conceived as an opportunity for the company’s younger talent to make something on the. The film is, at first, about Taku and Yutaka, high school boys who bond when they protest their strict school’s suspension of a class trip. Kochi is your average coastal town on the sleepy, idyllic island of Shikoku and young Taku is. NEWOcean Waves (Blu-Ray + DVD) Ghibli Studios - REGION BFACTORY SEALED. As a young man returns home after his first year.

With Nobuo Tobita, Toshihiko Seki, Yoko Sakamoto, Yuri Amano. Now released in the United States for the first time, it is a fascinating variant on Ghibli’s house style. Ocean Waves: Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki. The undertaking proved to be as quality-conscious as that of any of the studio’s other works. A tale of young love, adapted from a novel by Saeko Himuro, it was directed by Tomomi Mochizuki, who supervised junior staff artists. The studio’s 1993 film, “Ocean Waves,” was produced for television and initially conceived as a slight break from time-consuming meticulousness. During the company’s 31-year existence, its output has been relatively small, because the artists who founded it - Hayao Miyazaki, director of films including “Spirited Away” and “The Wind Rises,” is the most famous - are never less than painstaking. Studio Ghibli is revered by animation lovers the world over.
