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Coquille (1999)

Coquille (1999)

Drama

On the Seashore

Release Date: 1999, March 27
Directors: Shun Nakahara
Countries: Japan
Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Fubuki, Toru Masuoka, Jitsuko Yoshimura

Overview:

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...