The Stranger by the Shore

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The Stranger by the Shore

2020

59m

Drama

Romance

Anime

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4 Reviews

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Two men meet on a beach in Okinawa and are romantically attracted to each other.

Kate Sánchez

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

Stranger by the Shore is perfection. It’s a love story that is about the characters as individuals as it is about them as a pair…

Apr 16, 2023

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Grace Han

Asian Movie Pulse

The film truly is eye-candy; it is rare to find such an explicitly queer anime film on such a high budget... [but it's] a drama made for the sake of drama – and without, paradoxically, any of the gut-wrenching drama that it was written to come with.

Rated: 2/5

May 25, 2022

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Alix Turner

25YL (25 Years Later)

A coming of age drama and a romance between two young men; it is endearing without being condescending, encouraging and quite beautiful.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 8, 2021

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Matt Schley

Japan Times

In adapting the excellent manga, the team behind this film have proved once again that more is less.

Rated: 2.5/5

Sep 11, 2020

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Audience Member

Heartwarming, the deep but completely different connection they both share makes their story (specially at the end) deeply nurturing.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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Dragomir J

The scene changing so fast and the time too, couldn't catch onto the plot and lost it, not a big fan of anime so I decided to give it a try with this one, will not be coming back to any anime as far as I know

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/27/25

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Olive

beautiful movie, the art was wonderful but the plot? a bit confusing and lacking context.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/09/24

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Akiyo Ohashi

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Taishi Murata

Shun Hashimoto

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Mio Chibana

Yu Shimamura

Skurako

Kanae Itō

Eri

Sayaka Nakaya

Suzu

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Synopsis

Two men meet on a beach in Okinawa and are romantically attracted to each other.

Director: Akiyo Ohashi
Screenwriter: Akiyo Ohashi
Production Co: Studio Hibari
Genre: Drama, Romance, Anime
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 59m

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