Yutaka also tells Taku that he confessed to Rikako but was brutally rejected, prompting Taku to confront Rikako in class. When he arrives, he becomes angry at the conversation, and chastises Rikako and Okada for being 'bores.'īack home, Rikako ignores Taku but tells her friends they spent a night together. After exploring Tokyo and catching up on sleep at the hotel, Taku receives a call from Rikako asking to be rescued from her former boyfriend, Okada. The following day, Rikako kicks Taku out so that she can change clothes to meet a friend for lunch. Taku offers his bed and attempts to sleep in the bathtub. Rikako, disappointed in her father, joins him and explains that when her parents were fighting, she had always sided with her father, but had now discovered that he was not on her side. Rikako's father thanks Taku, repays the loan, and arranges a room for him at the Hyatt Regency. When Taku and Rikako get to her father's residence, they discover that Rikako's father has already found a new lover. He races to the airport and goes to Tokyo with Rikako in place of Yumi.

Out of the blue, a distressed Yumi calls Taku, explaining that Rikako had tricked her into coming to the airport on the pretense of a concert trip, only to discover that their real destination is Tokyo, tickets paid for with Taku's money. Rikako has not returned Taku's money and he wonders if she has forgotten. Promising to repay him, she warns him not to tell anyone.īack in Kōchi, the third year begins with Rikako making a friend, Yumi Kohama. As Taku has a part-time job, he lends her ¥60,000. On a school trip to Hawaii, Rikako asks Taku to lend her money, as she has lost her own. Taku believes she is unhappy about leaving Tokyo. Rikako is academically gifted and good at sports, but also arrogant. He finds Yutaka with an attractive female transfer student, Rikako Muto, whom Yutaka was asked to show around. In Kōchi, Taku Morisaki receives a call from his friend, Yutaka Matsuno, asking to meet at their high school. Plot Obiyamachi Shopping Arcade is a frequent film backdrop. In the same year, a TV drama was produced mainly based on this work starring Shinji Takeda and Hitomi Satō. In 1995, a sequel to the novel, I Can Hear the Sea II: Because There Is Love, was published. However, it ended up going both over budget and over schedule.

Ocean Waves was an attempt by Studio Ghibli to allow their younger staff members to make a film reasonably cheaply. 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. Animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten and the Nippon Television Network, Ocean Waves first aired on May 5, 1993, on Nippon TV. Ocean Waves, known in Japan as I Can Hear the Sea ( Japanese: 海がきこえる, Hepburn: Umi ga Kikoeru), is a 1993 Japanese anime coming-of-age romantic drama television film directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Keiko Niwa (credited as Kaori Nakamura) based on the 1990–1992 novel of the same name by Saeko Himuro. Tetsuya Kuroda (TV Asahi), Masayuki Morikawa ( Horipro)

I Can Hear the Sea II: Because There Is Love

Ocean waves anime 1993 movie