Is the movie Ocean Waves available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?
At Stream Tracker, we take a look at Ocean Waves (1993) — Studio Ghibli’s quiet, realistic coming-of-age film (original title Umi ga Kikoeru). The story opens with a brief, fateful glance across the platform at Kichijōji Station and unfolds through Taku Morisaki’s narration as a plane rises toward Kōchi Prefecture: a dropped photograph, summer heat, small confessions and an awkward love triangle that linger long after the credits. In this article we’ll map out where to watch it — from Netflix to Disney+, Prime Video and Apple TV+ — and tell you which services currently carry the film in your region. Ocean Waves didn’t collect major international awards, but it remains a distinctive, much-loved outlier in Ghibli’s catalogue.
Synopsis
At Kichijōji Station in Tokyo, Taku Morisaki catches sight of a woman he seems to know standing on the opposite platform as a train arrives. Later, moments before leaving his apartment to catch a flight to Kōchi Prefecture, a photograph of her slips from a shelf. He picks it up, studies it for a beat, then heads to the airport. As the plane lifts off, he begins to tell the story of how she entered his life.
Watch on which platform Ocean Waves
Updated on 12/03/2026Netflix
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Disney+
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Apple TV+
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