Ride Your Wave (ENG SUBS)
Camera Japan Festival, September 24th – 27th in LantarenVenster, presents a screening of Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave with English Subtitles on Wednesday August 26th. Prior to the screening Tom Mes will give a lecture on anime.
The Japanese animated romantic-drama Ride Your Wave starts off as a cute love story, but quickly becomes a moving character study about accepting personal loss. We follow charming, but clumsy surfer Hinako as she falls in love with Minato, the gentle, attentive firefighter who saves her life soon after she moves to a postage-stamp-sized town by the sea.
Hinako and Minato have a believably intimate summer fling: they bond over surfing (he’s not very good at it, but loves to learn from her); cooking omurice, the popular Japanese dish that pairs a fluffy omelet with rice (she’s not great at preparing them, but he is); watching fireworks together; and loving finless porpoises. But then Minato dies while trying to save a total stranger.
Yuasa Masaaki is one of the most innovative and exciting anime directors of the moment. With his instantly recognizable style – somewhere between pop-art and Gauguin -, his humor and his energetic, quirky characters, Masaaki is already mentioned in the same breath as illustrious peers like Miyazaki (Ghibli) and Shinkai (Your Name).
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Camera Japan Festival, September 24th – 27th in LantarenVenster, presents a screening of Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave with English Subtitles on Wednesday August 26th. Prior to the screening Tom Mes will give a lecture on anime.
The Japanese animated romantic-drama Ride Your Wave starts off as a cute love story, but quickly becomes a moving character study about accepting personal loss. We follow charming, but clumsy surfer Hinako as she falls in love with Minato, the gentle, attentive firefighter who saves her life soon after she moves to a postage-stamp-sized town by the sea.
Hinako and Minato have a believably intimate summer fling: they bond over surfing (he’s not very good at it, but loves to learn from her); cooking omurice, the popular Japanese dish that pairs a fluffy omelet with rice (she’s not great at preparing them, but he is); watching fireworks together; and loving finless porpoises. But then Minato dies while trying to save a total stranger.
Yuasa Masaaki is one of the most innovative and exciting anime directors of the moment. With his instantly recognizable style – somewhere between pop-art and Gauguin -, his humor and his energetic, quirky characters, Masaaki is already mentioned in the same breath as illustrious peers like Miyazaki (Ghibli) and Shinkai (Your Name).
Japanese spoken, English subtiteld. Lecture in English.
Anime is usually seen as something typically Japanese, even as representing the country and its culture. But the Japanese animation industry has a long history of interaction with Asia, North America, and Europe. From the early days of Astro Boy, via the roots of Studio Ghibli, to the latest made-for-Netflix animation, such interaction continues to shape “anime” to this day – including a litte pitstop in Holland along the way.
Tom Mes is the founder of MidnightEye.com and author of multiple books on Japanese cinema. He taught Japanese film and popular culture at Leiden University and is currently a lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
