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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea. Hinako is so distraught that she can no...

Directed By: Masaaki Yuasa

Written By: Reiko Yoshida

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • GKIDS
  • 1 h 35 m

Ride Your Wave

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
65
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea. Hinako is so distraught that she can no...

Directed By: Masaaki Yuasa

Written By: Reiko Yoshida

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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85
Jan 13, 2023
Ride Your Wave may be predictable, but it quickly becomes a charming and heartfelt story about loss and clinging to life, one with realistic and likeable characters that may even teach you something about yourself.
By Rafael Motamayor FULL REVIEW
85
Feb 20, 2020
Fancifully heartfelt, Ride Your Wave doesn’t constitute his top effort, but it’s inviting enough to persuade audiences unfamiliar with him to dip their feet and then fully dive into the profundity of his imagination, where wonder awaits.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 20, 2020
The filmmakers give Hinako weaknesses and doubts as well as strengths and talents. She’s a more complex, fully realized character than many heroines in recent American features.
By Charles Solomon FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 19, 2020
Ride Your Wave moves without a great sense of urgency, but only because Hinako’s emotional turmoil isn’t a great conflict or a tragedy. It is, however, as real as the private heartaches that we self-consciously wear on our sleeves.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 20, 2020
The director, Masaaki Yuasa, is adept at stories and visuals where water is a major character.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 5, 2019
The filmmakers’ reliance on romantic situations throughout the midsection may have some older teens and adults rolling their eyes, but the final scenes over-deliver with a literal flood of action that enables Hinako to definitively prove herself and discover her true calling.
By Justin Lowe FULL REVIEW
30
Nov 5, 2019
Sooner or later, Hinako is going to have to learn to face the world on her own, which is where the tension finally arises before this dopey film reaches its sappy conclusion — by showing its heroine, so effortless on water, “learning to ride life’s waves, too.”
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW

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Production Company East Japan Marketing & Communications Inc., Fuji Television Network, KDDI Corporation, Lawson Entertainment, Science SARU, Shogakukan, Toho
Release Date Feb 19, 2020
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.instagram.com/kiminami_movie
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Awards

Annie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Shanghai International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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