Ocean Waves

72 minutes • 1993 • 6.6

This Studio Ghibli film has its feet firmly planted on the ground, but that does not prevent it from being just as touching and poetic as the studio's more fantastic stories. We follow a romance between the boy Matsuno and the girl Rikako, who has just started at his school. She is mysterious, quiet and beautiful. Matsuno is completely smitten by the girl, but as he struggles to interpret her mixed signals, his friendship with his best friend Morisaki begins to strain, when the other boy also turns out to be interested in Rikako.