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Friday, May 15, 2020

My movie review! Day 22 (Whisper upon a heart)

Shizuku Tsukishima is a 14-year-old student at Mukaihara Junior High School, where she is best
friends with Yuko Harada. Living in Tokyo with her parents Asako and Seiya, as well as her
older sister Shiho, Shizuku is a bookworm and is keen on writing. During an ordinary evening,
she looks through the checkout cards in her library books. She discovers they all have been
checked out by Seiji Amasawa. 
Whisper of the Heart (Japanese: 耳をすませば, Hepburn: Mimi o Sumaseba, literally "If you listen closely")
is a 1995 Japanese animated romantic coming of age drama film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and written
by Hayao Miyazaki based on the 1989 manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. It was animated by Studio
Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toho. The film
stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Keiju
Kobayashi. It was the first theatrical Studio Ghibli film to be directed by someone other than Miyazaki or
Isao Takahata.
Whisper of the Heart was Kondō's only film as director before his death in 1998. Studio Ghibli
had hoped that Kondō would become the successor to Miyazaki and Takahata.[2]
It was the only theatrical Ghibli film not directed by Miyazaki or Takahata for seven years until The Cat
Returns was released in 2002, which focused on a minor character of the film, Baron.


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