Coquille
7.5
“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...
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Kaoru Kobayashi
Tatsuya Urayama
Known for
Princess Mononoke
THE DAYS
Jun Fubuki
Naoko Hayase
Known for
From Up on Poppy Hill
The Boy and the Heron
Kota Yamada
Shun Nakahara
Shigehiro Nakagawa
Toru Masuoka
Jiro Tanikawa
Known for
My Neighbors the Yamadas
Hanzawa Naoki
Naoya Narita
Osamu Yamamoto
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kimie Fujisaki
Known for
Onibaba
The Insect Woman
Yasufumi Hayashi
Kazuo Nakamura
Known for
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Suspect X
Ryo Iwamatsu
Naoyuki Goda
Known for
Air Doll
Shin Ultraman
Kumiko Kin
Etsuko Urayama
Also in
Tomie: Replay
The Song of Crazy Love
Shun Nakahara Director · Kota Yamada Writer Osamu Yamamoto Author
First release March 27, 1999 · Produced in Japan · Original title コキーユ 貝殻
Production
Japan
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Original title
コキーユ 貝殻
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 27, 1999
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No release date listed for United States.
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