--- title: 'Ocean Waves (1993)' type: 'film' director: 'Tomomi Mochizuki' released: '1993-05-05' runtime_minutes: 72 certification: 'PG-13' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ocean-waves-1993' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108432/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Ocean Waves (1993) 1993 · PG-13 · 72 min · Japan Original title: 海がきこえる Part of: Studio Ghibli Feature Films ## Synopsis Ocean Waves, known in Japan as I Can Hear the Sea, is a 1993 Japanese anime coming-of-age romantic drama television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Keiko Niwa based on the 1990–1992 novel of the same name by Saeko Himuro. Animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten and the Nippon Television Network, Ocean Waves first aired on May 5, 1993, on Nippon TV. The film is set in the city of Kōchi, and follows a love triangle that develops between two good friends and a new girl who transfers to their high school from Tokyo. ## Credits - **Director:** [Tomomi Mochizuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomomi-mochizuki) - **Screenplay:** [Keiko Niwa](https://cinepixo.com/people/keiko-niwa) - **Original Music Composer:** [Shigeru Nagata](https://cinepixo.com/people/shigeru-nagata) - **Producer:** [Toshio Suzuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshio-suzuki), [Nozomu Takahashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/nozomu-takahashi) ## Cast - [Nobuo Tobita](https://cinepixo.com/people/nobuo-tobita) as 杜崎 拓 - [Constantin von Jascheroff](https://cinepixo.com/people/constantin-von-jascheroff) as Okada - [Tanya Kahana](https://cinepixo.com/people/tanya-kahana) as Rikako Mutou - [Tobias Nath](https://cinepixo.com/people/tobias-nath) as Yutaka Matsuno - [Toshihiko Seki](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshihiko-seki) as 松野 豊 - [Yuri Amano](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuri-amano) as 清水明子 - [Kinryū Arimoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinryu-arimoto) - [Thomas Schmuckert](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-schmuckert) - [Hikaru Midorikawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/hikaru-midorikawa) as 山尾忠志 - [Jun'ichi Kanemaru](https://cinepixo.com/people/jun-ichi-kanemaru) as 岡田 - [Sonja Spuhl](https://cinepixo.com/people/sonja-spuhl) as Yumi Kohama - [Nico Sablik](https://cinepixo.com/people/nico-sablik) as Taku Morisaki - [Ai Satō](https://cinepixo.com/people/ai-sato) - [Julia Ziffer](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-ziffer) as Akiko Shimizu - [Yōko Sakamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoko-sakamoto) as 武藤 里伽子 ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/ocean-waves-1993 Film facts: Wikidata (Q740339); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.