Coquille
Mar 27 1999
•2h 35m
•Drama
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
Jun Fubuki
Naoko Hayase
Toru Masuoka
Jiro Tanikawa
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kimie Fujisaki
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