Anime News Network reports that Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves has been scheduled for a dvd release by Optimum Home Entertainment on August 17 in UK. The 72 minute animated movie, which premiered as a television special, is the last Studio Ghibli feature to get a dvd release in an English speaking region. Tomomi Mochizuki became the first director besides Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata to direct a Ghibli feature when he adapted the Umi ga Kikoeru high school romance novel by the late Saeko Himuro in 1993. Ocean Waves and another Ghibli feature, Grave of the Fireflies, were not a part of Disney-Tokuma deal in 1996. Buena Vista has since released every film from its Tokuma Shoten deal on dvd in North America, except for Only Yesterday. Optimum released Only Yesterday in the United Kingdom in 2006.