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A surfer and firefighter meet and fall in love.A surfer and firefighter meet and fall in love.A surfer and firefighter meet and fall in love.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 8 nominations
Rina Kawaei
- Hinako Mukaimizu
- (voice)
Kentarô Itô
- Wasabi Kawamura
- (voice)
- (as Kentaro Ito)
You Taichi
- Junko
- (voice)
Mai Nishikawa
- Ai
- (voice)
Kenji Sugimura
- Leader
- (voice)
Kunihiro Kawamoto
- Commander
- (voice)
Shigeo Kiyama
- Captain
- (voice)
Kento Hama
- Man A
- (voice)
Haruki Ishiya
- Man B
- (voice)
Satoshi Yamazaki
- Young Minato
- (voice)
Hina Kino
- Young Hinako
- (voice)
Serika Hiromatsu
- Woman A
- (voice)
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- Writer
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- ConnectionsFeatured in Chris Stuckmann Movie Reviews: Ride Your Wave (2019)
Featured review
Good ideas, imperfect execution, but it still mostly works overall.
The Masaaki Yuasa films I've seen before were a good deal more out-there and comedic than Ride Your Wave. After the first act, there are some fantastical elements introduced, but I feel like they happen a little too late in the film to discuss without running the risk of ruining things.
Basically, to try and stay vague, it's a fairly light and even sappy romance, and then things take a slightly stranger turn, but it never goes all out with the craziness like Mind Game and Night Is Short, Walk On Girl both did. I think I prefer those, even though Ride Your Wave has moments that hit harder emotionally and it feels more moving because it's quite grounded.
It looks great throughout. Again, without too many crazy moments, the visuals aren't as stylized as one might be used to with Masaaki Yuasa, but it's a good-looking movie and it still has a nice (downplayed) style, to some extent.
The final act is a bit weird. Things move away from the main character(s) a little, and then back again, and the side characters never fully fit into the story; not when they were sort of there in the background in the movie's first half, and not when they were kind of between foreground and background in the second half. I did also think Ride Your Wave was aggressively sappy for a while near the start, but the tone/vibe it has in the first half-hour or so does get changed up in interesting ways during the final hour.
It's not a seamless or perfectly executed anime movie, but it's a nice watch. Some moments work really well, there are a few bits that don't quite pay off, and then the rest of the film's fairly solid, if not quite amazing or anything. I think that overall, it's pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
Basically, to try and stay vague, it's a fairly light and even sappy romance, and then things take a slightly stranger turn, but it never goes all out with the craziness like Mind Game and Night Is Short, Walk On Girl both did. I think I prefer those, even though Ride Your Wave has moments that hit harder emotionally and it feels more moving because it's quite grounded.
It looks great throughout. Again, without too many crazy moments, the visuals aren't as stylized as one might be used to with Masaaki Yuasa, but it's a good-looking movie and it still has a nice (downplayed) style, to some extent.
The final act is a bit weird. Things move away from the main character(s) a little, and then back again, and the side characters never fully fit into the story; not when they were sort of there in the background in the movie's first half, and not when they were kind of between foreground and background in the second half. I did also think Ride Your Wave was aggressively sappy for a while near the start, but the tone/vibe it has in the first half-hour or so does get changed up in interesting ways during the final hour.
It's not a seamless or perfectly executed anime movie, but it's a nice watch. Some moments work really well, there are a few bits that don't quite pay off, and then the rest of the film's fairly solid, if not quite amazing or anything. I think that overall, it's pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
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- Jeremy_Urquhart
- May 26, 2024
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- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Kimito Namini Noretara
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $332,432
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $19,643
- Feb 23, 2020
- Gross worldwide
- $4,048,748
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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