Coquille
1999, Japanese. Directed by Shun Nakahara.
On the Seashore
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...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 27 March 1999
- Original title
- コキーユ 貝殻
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Kota Yamada
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Coquille runs 95 minutes (1h 35m).
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Coquille isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 27 March 1999. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
What movies are like Coquille?
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Who directed Coquille?
Coquille (1999) was directed by Shun Nakahara and stars Kaoru Kobayashi, Jun Fubuki, Toru Masuoka.