Distributor GKIDS confirmed on Wednesday that it premiere the Ocean Waves anime film in North American theaters.
Central Park Media (CPM) and later ADV Films and Sentai Filmworks released Grave of the Fireflies, but Ocean Waves has never been released on home video in North America.
The distributor recently released Only Yesterday for the first time in North America; the film was included in Tokuma Shoten and Disney’s distribution deal but never released.
Studio Ghibli’s 1993 Ocean Waves television special and another Ghibli work, Grave of the Fireflies, were notably missing from Tokuma Shoten and Walt Disney Company’s landmark international distribution deal for every other Ghibli feature in 1996.