Coquille

"On the Seashore"

1999 1h 35m JA

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7.6

BANGER

★7.6TMDB · 7

Drama

Synopsis

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Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of her first love are revived. Her love for him has never faded even though she married another man and bore his child. What has kept her going is a white shell the boy gave her and a phrase of Jean Cocteau's poem, "My ears are shells, fondly hearing the sound of the sea..." She gets a divorce, returns to her hometown and opens a bar named "Coquille," which means "shell." Without their knowing, an unexpected turn of events awaits the two...

“On the Seashore”

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Cast

Kaoru Kobayashi
Tatsuya Urayama
Jun Fubuki
Naoko Hayase
Toru Masuoka
Jiro Tanikawa
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kimie Fujisaki

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Shun Nakahara
Writers: Kota Yamada
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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ERA

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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Kaoru Kobayashi and Jun Fubuki and Toru Masuoka carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "On the Seashore".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0266428 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 7 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Shun Nakahara directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

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127 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Kaoru Kobayashi and Jun Fubuki and Toru Masuoka carry the top of the cast.
4Marketing tagline: "On the Seashore".
5IMDB entry: tt0266428 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 7 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.