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Ocean Waves
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #461
- IMDb #402
- Google retired #392
- Rotten Tomatoes #260
- Metacritic #225
- Letterboxd #490
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #373
- Metacritic Audience #352
- Kinopoisk #388
- AlloCiné #490
- Trakt #497
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 60, highest is Google on 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A high school student in a quiet Japanese town finds his life disrupted by the arrival of a beautiful and enigmatic transfer student from Tokyo. He and his best friend both become infatuated with her, causing a rift in their friendship. The story reflects on their complicated relationships and the lingering memories of adolescence.
Details
- Director
- Tomomi Mochizuki
- Writer
- Keiko Niwa
- Based on
- Umi ga kikoeru by Saeko Himuro
- Released
- 9 October 1993
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 72 min
- Rated
- PG-13
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