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Coquille
Coquille
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Coquille

Original Title: コキーユ 貝殻

1999
1h 35m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1999

Runtime

1h 35m

Storyline

"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...

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 35m
Mar 27, 1999
Languages
Japanese
Director
Shun Nakahara
Shun Nakahara
Production Countries
Japan

Top Cast

4 Cast Members

Kaoru Kobayashi

Kaoru Kobayashi

Tatsuya Urayama

Jun Fubuki

Jun Fubuki

Naoko Hayase

Toru Masuoka

Toru Masuoka

Jiro Tanikawa

Jitsuko Yoshimura

Jitsuko Yoshimura

Kimie Fujisaki

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