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Umi ga kikoeru (I Can Hear the Sea) (The Ocean Waves)

Umi ga kikoeru (I Can Hear the Sea) (The Ocean Waves) (1993)

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The main character travels to his hometown for his high school reunion. During the trip, he recalls the memories of the days in high school. Friendship, subtle love, a trip to Tokyo and so on all came back to him as the film evolves.

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Saeko Himuro

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Critic Reviews for Umi ga kikoeru (I Can Hear the Sea) (The Ocean Waves)

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There's the boys' close friendship and the very Japanese dilemma of individuality versus social cohesion. This wistful meditation on maturity echoes and eddies around a trip to Tokyo in the past and a chance moment on a Tokyo train platform in the present

May 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

An interesting, amusing, and cleverly composed story of first love...

February 3, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture
Mike Edwards
What Culture
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A melancholy adolescent drama about love in the class room. I hate Japaneses class room dramas even more than I hate (non-1950's era) American high-school dramas. I didn't however, hate Ocean Waves. It's got that Ghibli charm that I just can't resist. The animation is, as always, absolutely brilliant and for once, I can see it as a real story rather than an example of what doesn't happen in the last years of school. It's not my favorite Ghibli, give me a giant furry monster and talking cats any day but its quite lovely all the same.
April 22, 2013
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Anthony Lawrie

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A delightful little film from Studio Ghibli. On the surface it isn't about much, just a boy who reminisces about the one that got away. In a brief 70 minutes we follow the lives of these Japanese high school students, and are completely engrossed with the world and politics of high school. There's a quiet sensibility that many people will recognise from some of Ghibli's other films such as Only Yesterday. Lovely animation brings Japan to life in a way that even live-action films sometimes fail to do. With delicate music and vocal performances this is a wonderful little film that I will probably revisit again soon.
January 30, 2013
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Luke Baldock

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