Coquille

Story

Synopsis

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...

Director

Shun Nakahara

Writers

Osamu Yamamoto, Kota Yamada

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

27 March 1999

Ensemble

Cast

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  Kaoru Kobayashi

  Tatsuya Urayama

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  Jun Fubuki

  Naoko Hayase

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  Toru Masuoka

  Jiro Tanikawa

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  Jitsuko Yoshimura

  Kimie Fujisaki