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Ocean Waves
海がきこえる
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...
Screenings
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Presented by Letters and NumbersScreening and discussion of one of Studio Ghibli's most unconventional and underrated works: Tomomi Mochizuki's Ocean Waves (1993). This was the studio's first film directed by neither Hayao Miyazaki nor Isao Takahata, and their first made-for-television release. A story focused on first love and teenage alienation, it stands as Ghibli's most untypical yet quintessentially anime production. Art critic Sona Arsenyan leads the discussion exploring why the film departed so sharply from the studio's signature style and why Ghibli abandoned similar experiments afterward. Registration via the form at lancoworking.am.