Ocean Waves – A Forrest Review

Ocean Waves , or I Can Hear the Sea , is a 1993 TV movie released in Japan and animated by Studio Ghibli. It was written by Saeko Himuro and directed by Tomomi Mochizuki. It was intended to be an inexpensive way for Ghibli’s younger staff to make a film reasonably cheaply, however, Ocean Waves ended up going both over budget and over schedule. 

Ocean Waves is enmeshed in teenage drama, and that’s really the point. A man reminisces about his high school days of the time when he meets a young...