Ride Your Wave

About Ride Your Wave

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.

Ride Your Wave (2019) is an animation comedy film directed by Masaaki Yuasa. It runs 95 minutes and was released in June 2019.

The film is filed under beach, tragedy, slice of life, and afterlife.

Ryota Katayose stars as Minato Hinageshi (voice), Rina Kawaei as Hinako Mukaizumi (voice), Honoka Matsumoto as Yoko Hinageshi (voice), and Kentaro Ito as Wasabi Kawamura (voice). The screenplay is by Reiko Yoshida. Produced by Science SARU. In the United States it streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

Your Name., Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train, and 5 Centimeters per Second make useful companions to Ride Your Wave, all filed under coming of age. TMDB voters put it at 7.6 out of 10 across 386 votes.