It never even got an English dub, making it a diamond-in-the-rough for American viewers. — C.H.
A one-off in Studio Ghibli's filmography, Ocean Waves was an experiment in letting younger staff members at the studio make their own movie. Though it wasn't successful enough to sustain the experiment, Ocean Waves is still an interesting portrait of adolescent alienation and the strange sensation of not fully understanding certain personal encounters until years afterward. It never even got an English dub, making it a diamond-in-the-rough for American viewers. — C.H.