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Coquille

On the Seashore

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...

1h 35m1999TMDb 7.6

Japanese

Crew and Cast

Storyline

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...

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Info

Original title
コキーユ 貝殻
Status
Released
Released
27 March 1999
Runtime
1h 35m
TMDB score
7.6 / 10 (7 votes)

Production

Director
Shun Nakahara
Writers
Kota Yamada
Countries
Japan

Languages

Original
Japanese
Spoken
Japanese