ItвЂ™s an episodic tale of encounters between Rikako and Taku. ItвЂ™s an even more gentle and often uneventful film than its description might lead you to believe. Yes, the people known for masterful fantasies like вЂњ Princess MononokeвЂќ and вЂњ Spirited AwayвЂќ made a love triangle drama. HeвЂ™s immediately seeing this person through the eyes of his friend, which makes it even harder for him to later admit he has feelings for Rikako, for fear that it will break his friendship with Yutaka.

Her back is to the window now and so Taku has to take his friendвЂ™s opinion of her as fact. Taku first spots Rikako through the eyes of his friend Yutaka, who spotted the alluring young woman through a window. Could it be Rikako, the young woman who changed his life in school just a few years prior? The film then flashes back to TakuвЂ™s time in school, focusing on the new girl who shakes everyone up. Taku is a young man at a train station in Tokyo when he spots a familiar face on another platform. ItвЂ™s a delicate, well-told drama that may lack the depth of something like вЂњOnly YesterdayвЂќ but proves that Miyazaki and TakahataвЂ™s students were listening to their teachers.Дirected by Tomomi Mochizuki and written by Kaori Nakamura (from a novel by Saeko Himuro), вЂњOcean WavesвЂќ is a story of memory and love. With an incredibly short running time (72 minutes) and deceptively simple story, вЂњOcean WavesвЂќ could feel like a footnote in the Ghibli story but it features qualities of its own as well. Reportedly sprung to life as an opportunity for some of the younger animators at Ghibli to spread their wings, вЂњOcean WavesвЂќ is the first Ghibli film not directed by Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata, although one can see the fingerprints of both gentlemen on the final product. вЂњOcean WavesвЂќ was broadcast on Japanese television in the early вЂ90s, but has been hard to find in the United States since then. viewers with an animated drama from one of the most important film companies in history (now in limited release in NY). First she hits him up for money and then puts him in an awkward position, obliging him to travel with her to Tokyo.Earlier this year, GKIDS released a restored version of Studio GhibliвЂ™s rarely-seen and masterful вЂњ Only Yesterday,вЂќ and they end the year in a similar fashion, digging into the vaults to present U.S. Rikako, a girl from Tokyo who joins their class, enthralls Yutaka but attaches herself to Taku. They live in what urban Japanese consider the boondocks, the island city Kochi. The film is, at first, about Taku and Yutaka, high school boys who bond when they protest their strict schoolвЂ™s suspension of a class trip. Now released in the United States for the first time, it is a fascinating variant on GhibliвЂ™s house style. The undertaking proved to be as quality-conscious as that of any of the studioвЂ™s other works. A tale of young love, adapted from a novel by Saeko Himuro, it was directed by Tomomi Mochizuki, who supervised junior staff artists. The studioвЂ™s 1993 film, вЂњOcean Waves,вЂќ was produced for television and initially conceived as a slight break from time-consuming meticulousness. During the companyвЂ™s 31-year existence, its output has been relatively small, because the artists who founded it - Hayao Miyazaki, director of films including вЂњSpirited AwayвЂќ and вЂњThe Wind Rises,вЂќ is the most famous - are never less than painstaking. Studio Ghibli is revered by animation lovers the world over.

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