Coquille

Coquille

On the Seashore

1999 · 95 min · ★ 7.6 · Drama

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...

Directed by Shun Nakahara · Written by Kota Yamada

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

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