OCEAN WAVES

February 3 – 9
OCEAN WAVES

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.
Dir: Tomomi Mochizuki / 1993 /Japanese w/ English Subtitles / 72 min

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.

“In its sensitivity and attention to detail, Ocean Waves makes itself into something special, and kind of magical, and so proves very much a Ghibli gem” – Glenn Kenny, New York Times

SCREENING: Fri 2/3 6:30pm; Sat 2/4 4pm & 9pm; Sun 2/5 5pm; Tues 2/7 9pm; Wed 2/8 6:30pm; Thurs 2/9 4pm & 9pm
Tickets available at box office 30 minutes prior to showtime