Ocean Waves(1993)
At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
Movie: Ocean Waves
Top 10 Billed Cast
Taku Morisaki (voice)
Yutaka Matsuno (voice)
Akiko Shimizu (voice)
Yumi Kohama (voice)
Okada (voice)
Taku's Mother (voice)
Young Girl (voice)
Minarai (voice)
Tadashi Yamao (voice)
Video Trailer Ocean Waves
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