Coquille
1999 · 95 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 52 VOTES · DIR. Shun Nakahara
Overview
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...
Dialogue Timeline — 787 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:13 Bobby, come here
00:02:35 COQUILLE
00:05:59 His teacher makes him sick
00:08:44 Let's go back 30 years
00:12:31 What's wrong?
00:16:42 Huh? Sure
00:19:51 Let's go wild again, together
00:22:57 It boils down to his using you
00:26:38 Elementary school?
00:29:56 Yes
00:34:17 Please come again tomorrow
00:40:03 She's trying to leave the nest
00:44:04 I'll drive
00:49:23 Thank you
00:54:24 Could have at least changed the name
00:56:42 Well...
01:01:10 What's that? Wear you suit
01:04:42 Then what?
01:08:13 At Akiba Shrine, racing against someone
01:11:17 I'm glad I came
01:14:07 with the poem inside
01:19:38 Let's leave it as it is
01:24:39 You could have at least called me
01:27:55 Yes
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed787
Dialogue density8.3 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line01:27:55
Production Record
DirectorShun Nakahara
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes52