Coquille

Coquille

95 mins | Drama | March 27, 1999

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...

Coquille

95 mins | Drama | March 27, 1999

Coquille
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...
Producers
Original title コキーユ 貝殻
Directors Shun Nakahara
Writers Osamu Yamamoto, Kota Yamada

Cast

Kaoru Kobayashi

as Tatsuya Urayama

Jun Fubuki

as Naoko Hayase

Toru Masuoka

as Jiro Tanikawa

Jitsuko Yoshimura

as Kimie Fujisaki