Coquille

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 27, 1999

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Jun Fubuki,Toru Masuoka,Kaoru Kobayashi,Jitsuko Yoshimura

Director

Shun Nakahara

Writer

Osamu Yamamoto,Kota Yamada

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0266428