In both scale and subject, it cleaves closer to the delicate wistfulness of a Haruki Murakami novel - one of his earlier, more earthbound books - than it does the enchanted wistfulness of “My Neighbor Totoro” or the crushing melodrama of “Grave of the Fireflies.” Although it was broadcast before Ghibli had fully solidified its standing as the Disney of the East, a breezy slice-of-life story already seemed like an anomaly for the animation giant. The first Ghibli film that wasn’t directed by either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata, “Ocean Waves” is glaringly absent the former’s flair for fantasy or the latter’s gift for minimalist heartbreak. Since then, the sentimental high school drama has existed just outside the Ghibli legend, more of a curiosity than part of the canon, unseen to all but the studio’s most dedicated completists. In spite of those simple aspirations, the project came in late and over budget, eventually airing on local television in 1993 and failing to make much of a splash. I think I saw a Japanese Region 2 DVD online.The most modest and least celebrated of the films produced by Japan’s peerless Studio Ghibli, “Ocean Waves” was conceived as an opportunity for the company’s younger talent to make something on the cheap. “Ocean Waves” is playing on Jan 2, 3, and 5 at the New York IFC theatre. She had always watched Samurai movies when she was little and was surprised that someone could actually sound like that. That crazy girl from Tokyo interrupts a conversation with some guy who is crushing on her to make fun of his accent. My racist-joke humor is tuned pretty finely after seasons of “South Park” but you know, it’s Studio Ghibli. It was also a fun to see a little jaunty racist humor show up in the story as well. We couldn’t believe that Toshihiko would get so bitchy, and that Nobou would keep helping her out! Don’t even get me started on the trip to Hawaii.
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It really sheds some light on the American Vampiristic-Art style, originating in the late 2000s… I went to the movie with some friends and we just couldn’t stop buzzing about these anime characters. It makes me feel really great to think that Studio Ghibli includes this kind of theatre in its repertoire. Emotions rippled back and forth from scene to scene and it made the crummy actions of those snotty people believable! I had that experience with the movie “Cruel Intentions.” It was a little sad that I had to read subtitles very quickly and try to study the facial animation of the characters. American audiences would bait their breath for the moment when they burst into song to sing about their feelings, but they would pass out from exhaustion. A new girl moves into town from Tokyo and that’s when the drama really hits the fan. These kids are all wearing uniforms, but the anime was giving off such a strong ‘preppy vibe’ I was wondering why I hadn’t seen it before. And I realized that this film, from two people from the same part of Japan (the Hokkaidō Prefuncture), was so similar to what I see in New York, except that it was another country in 1993! It is an adaptation of one of the novels of the late Saeko Himuro. I had just discovered that Tomomi Mochizuki directed an anime from that studio. I suppose I went to a Studio Ghibli film festival, rather than a Miyazaki one. Ocean Waves Studio Ghibli Storyboard Tomomi Mochizuki
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