One Day We ll Meet Again Whisper
| Whisper of the Heart | |
|---|---|
 Japanese theatrical release affiche | |
| Japanese | 耳をすませば |
| Hepburn | Mimi o Sumaseba |
| Directed by | Yoshifumi Kondō |
| Screenplay by | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Based on | Mimi o Sumaseba by Aoi Hiiragi |
| Produced by | Toshio Suzuki |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Atsushi Okui |
| Edited by | Takeshi Seyama |
| Music by | Yuji Nomi |
| Production | Studio Ghibli |
| Distributed past | Toho |
| Release appointment |
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| Running fourth dimension | 111 minutes |
| Land | Japan |
| Linguistic communication | Japanese |
| Box office | ¥iii.xv billion (Japan)[1] |
Whisper of the Middle (Japanese: 耳をすませば, Hepburn: Mimi o Sumaseba , literally "If You Listen Closely") is a 1995 Japanese animated musical coming-of-age romantic drama moving picture directed past 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. The flick stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Keiju Kobayashi.
Whisper of the Centre was Kondō's only pic every bit director before his death in 1998. Studio Ghibli had hoped that Kondō would go the successor to Miyazaki and Takahata.[2]
It was the only theatrical Ghibli pic not directed past Miyazaki or Isao Takahata for 7 years until The True cat Returns was released in 2002, which focused on a small-scale grapheme of the picture, Businesswoman.
Plot [edit]
Shizuku Tsukishima is a fourteen-year-old girl who attends Mukaihara Junior Loftier School, where she is best friends with Yūko Harada. She lives in a Tokyo suburb with her parents Asako, Seiya and older sis Shiho, and is keen on reading books, particularly fairy tales. One summer evening, she looks through the checkout cards in her library books and discovers they were all checked out previously by someone named Seiji Amasawa.
Shizuku meets Yūko at the schoolhouse and reveals "Concrete Roads," her "Take Me Home, State Roads" parody written for the school graduation and criticizing the deforestation of Tama New Town (which also serves as the ecological crisis of Studio Ghibli film "Pom Poko"). Yūko reveals that she has a crush on a boy named Sugimura, who happens to be Shizuku's friend. Yūko and Shizuku walk home when she realizes she left her book at the schoolhouse. She runs back to discover a boy reading her book which he returns, merely not without teasing her and slighting her lyrics, which leaves her feeling irritable for the rest of the evening. On the next day, while on her fashion to the library to deliver her father'due south lunch to him, Shizuku encounters a peculiar cat commuting on the train, and follows it to notice an antique shop run by Shirō Nishi. In the shop in that location is a cat statuette nicknamed The Baron too as a centuries old antique clock. Realizing she's late for the library, Shizuku runs out feeling ecstatic well-nigh finding "a place where stories begin", only to run into the male child she had met the previous day, who returns the lunchbox she left behind. He comments on how much food is in the box and rides away, singing her song, leaving Shizuku in another foul mood.
When schoolhouse restarts, Yūko is devastated when Sugimura asks her to reply to a beloved letter his teammate sent. Shizuku confronts Sugimura and scolds him for his actions, only for him to reveal he had a crush on her. However, she rejects him in gild to not hurt Yūko. Shizuku leaves feeling leveled. Feeling disconsolate, Shizuku decides to head to the antique shop, meeting the boy once more. He shows her the workshop, where she discovers that he is learning to make violins to pursue his dream of becoming a principal luthier. She begs him to play the violin for her, but he agrees on the condition that she sings along. The pair perform "Have Me Home, Country Roads" as information technology was adapted by Shizuku for her graduation. The boy is revealed to be Seiji, Nishi'due south grandson, and Shizuku and Seiji finally befriend each other.
Seiji admits that he admires Shizuku'south talents, and reveals his dream to become a luthier, too equally his efforts of checking out a large number of books in the hopes that she would eventually detect him. Days later on, Seiji leaves for Cremona, Italia for a ii-calendar month study with a master violin-maker. Inspired by Seiji, Shizuku decides to pursue her skill for writing seriously in the aforementioned two months. She asks Nishi if she tin write a story featuring the Baron, to which Nishi grants his consent in exchange for existence the get-go to read her story.
Shizuku concocts a fantasy story chosen "Whisper of the Eye", featuring herself as the protagonist, the Baron equally the male hero looking for his lost love, Louise, and the true cat from the train (a neighborhood devious who is, amongst other names, known as "Moon" and "Muta") as the adversary. Devoting her time to her writing, Shizuku stays up until early on in the forenoon, and her schoolhouse grades drop. She argues with Shiho over her grades and time to come, just their parents tell Shizuku to proceed her dream but that the path will be difficult. As she continues to push herself and Shiho tells her that she is moving out, her anxiety mounts.
When her story is consummate, Nishi reads it and gives his honest cess, which is that Shizuku is talented, but requires refinement through practice. Shizuku bursts into tears every bit the stress of the last two months turns into relief. Nishi consoles her and tells her the real-life story of the Baron. When he studied in Frg in his youth, he found his showtime dear, a woman named Louise. Nishi discovered the twin statuettes of the Baron and his female person companion in a buffet, but as the female one was away for repairs, the shopkeeper would only allow Nishi to buy the Baron if Louise agreed to agree onto its companion so they could be reunited. Notwithstanding, the two lovers and their cat statues were separated during World War II, and could non discover each other after the state of war ended. Nishi then thanks Shizuku for bringing life to what used to exist just a retention for him. In the original Japanese script, Shizuku never knew of the truth of the Baron's origin or of Louise, and Seiji earlier tells her that his granddaddy refuses to speak of it. This makes Shizuku'south inclusion of Louise in the story a tremendous coincidence, or something else. In the English language dub, Seiji's dialogue is changed and he briefly tells her about Louise.
Deciding she needs to acquire more nearly writing, and that she wants to nourish high schoolhouse, Shizuku announces to her mother that she will resume studying for her high school entrance exams. Shizuku wakes upward early in the morning and sees Seiji outside on his bicycle, having returned a mean solar day earlier. In the English dub, Seiji tells Shizuku he decided to stop high school before returning to Cremona to go a luthier, differing from the Japanese dialogue, in which he says he will render to Cremona subsequently heart schoolhouse graduation as planned.
Seiji takes Shizuku on his wheel to his hidden spotter, where they watch the sunrise. Seiji professes his love for Shizuku and proposes that they marry in the time to come; she happily accepts.
Shizuku's "Accept Me Home, Country Roads" plays over the ending credits while daily life in her hometown is observed, including Yūko and Sugimura meeting upwards on the way habitation from schoolhouse.
Voice cast [edit]
| Character | Original cast | English language dub cast | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shizuku Tsukishima ( 月島 雫 , Tsukishima Shizuku ) | A 14-year-erstwhile junior high school student who loves books. | Yōko Honna | Brittany Snowfall |
| Seiji Amasawa ( 天沢 聖司 , Amasawa Seiji ) | An aspiring violin maker who attends the same school as Shizuku. | Issei Takahashi | David Gallagher |
| Asako Tsukishima ( 月島 朝子 , Tsukishima Asako ) | Graduate student. Shizuku and Shiho's mother and Seiya's married woman. | Shigeru Muroi | Jean Smart |
| Seiya Tsukishima ( 月島 靖也 , Tsukishima Seiya ) | Librarian. Shizuku and Shiho'south begetter and Asako'due south husband. | Takashi Tachibana | James Sikking |
| Baron Humbert von Gikkingen ( フンベルト・フォン・ジッキンゲン男爵 , Funberuto fon Jikkingen danshaku ) | An anthropomorphic cat statue from Frg belonging to Shirō Nishi. | Shigeru Tsuyuguchi | Cary Elwes |
| Shirō Nishi ( 西 司朗 , Nishi Shirō ) | Owner of a local antiquarian shop. Seiji's granddaddy | Keiju Kobayashi | Harold Gould |
| Yūko Harada ( 原田 夕子 , Harada Yūko ) | Shizuku'south friend at her school. | Maiko Kayama | Ashley Tisdale |
| Ms. Kōsaka ( 高坂先生 , Kōsaka-sensei ) | The yōgo (health room teacher) at Shizuku'south school whom she and her classmates sometimes hang out with. | Minami Takayama | Vicki Davis |
| Kinuyo and Nao ( 絹代, ナオ ) | Shizuku's other school friends. | Mayumi Iizuka Mai Chiba | Mika Boorem Abigail Mavity |
| Sugimura ( 杉村 ) | Yūko's beat out and Shizuku'south friend. | Yoshimi Nakajima | Martin Spanjers |
| Shiho Tsukishima ( 月島 汐 , Tsukishima Shiho ) | Shizuku's older sister and a college pupil. | Yorie Yamashita | Courtney Thorne-Smith |
| Kita and Minami ( 北, 南 ) | Nishi's musician friends. | Toshio Suzuki and Naohisa Inoue | (Kita) Walker Edmiston (Minami) Corey Burton |
For the English dub, Cary Elwes reprised his role as the Baron from The Cat Returns: while The Cat Returns is a spin-off of Whisper of the Heart, its English dub was produced before the latter moving picture saw an American release.
Background [edit]
| Mimi o Sumaseba | |
 Manga cover. | |
| Manga | |
| Written past | Aoi Hiiragi |
|---|---|
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Ribon |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | July 3, 1989 – October iii, 1989 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Shiawase na Jikan | |
| Written by | Aoi Hiiragi |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Mag | Ribon Original |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Published | Baronial 1995 |
| Volumes | 1 |
Whisper of the Heart was based on the manga Mimi o Sumaseba which was originally created by Aoi Hiiragi. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Ribon between August and November 1989, and a single tankōbon volume was released on Feb 20, 1990. The volume was reprinted on July fifteen, 2005.[three] A second manga by the same author titled Mimi o Sumaseba: Shiawase na Jikan was serialized in Shueisha'south Ribon Original in August 1999 and released in a single volume on February 20, 1996. A spiritual sequel to this film adaption, The True cat Returns, was turned back into a manga by Aoi Hiiragi, under the name Baron: Neko no Danshaku.
Production [edit]
During production, the backgrounds in the fantasy sequences of the film were drawn by Naohisa Inoue and the woodcut of the imprisoned violin-maker was created past Miyazaki'southward son Keisuke Miyazaki, a professional engraver.[4]
Music [edit]
The film score of Whisper of the Eye was composed past Yuji Nomi. At times during the film, Shizuku translates John Denver'southward song "Take Me Home, Land Roads" to Japanese for her school's chorus club.[5] She writes her own humorous Japanese version of the song, called "Concrete Road," almost her hometown in western Tokyo. The songs were actually translated by producer Toshio Suzuki's daughter Mamiko with Hayao Miyazaki writing supplemental lyrics. These songs play a part at points in the story.[6] A recording of "Take Me Domicile, State Roads," performed by Olivia Newton-John, plays during the moving-picture show'south opening sequence. The vocal was also performed by Shizuku's voice actress Yoko Honna.
Setting [edit]
The movie is prepare around Seiseki-Sakuragaoka station in Tama city, Tokyo, where Shizuku goes up and downwardly stairs and where she and Seiji declare their love on superlative of the colina most the station. There are paper fortunes at the shrine where this scene takes place. There are three shops where fans of the picture go to meet.
Release [edit]
Whisper of the Heart was released in Japan on July 15, 1995, as the kickoff motion-picture show in the country to utilize the Dolby Digital sound format.[7] It was shown alongside the music video On Your Mark for the song by Chage and Aska. The flick was released on VHS and Laserdisc past Tokuma Shoten in Jan 1996, and the VHS was later reissued by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan on July 25, 1997 every bit part of the "Ghibli ga Ippai" series. The picture later saw a DVD release on May 24, 2002, and dissimilar other Ghibli movies has not been reissued in Nihon.
On July xx, 2011, Walt Disney Studios Nihon released the movie on Blu-Ray.
English language release [edit]
An English language dub of this film was produced past Walt Disney Pictures in 2003, but it wouldn't exist released until March seven, 2006, when it came out on DVD.[8] Turner Archetype Movies televised both the dubbed and subbed versions on January 19, 2006[ix] as role of their month-long celebration of Miyazaki in honor of his birthday, January v.[ten] The reason for the long delay was due to rights issues surrounding "Have Me Home, Country Roads", as information technology's a major plot signal in the movie.
The English title, Whisper of the Centre, was created by Studio Ghibli and used on several officially licensed "graphic symbol goods" released around the same time equally the film was released in theaters in Japan.
The North American Blu-ray was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on May 22, 2012, alongside Castle in the Sky and The Hush-hush World of Arrietty.[11] GKIDS re-issued the film on Blu-ray and DVD on January 16, 2022 under a new bargain with Studio Ghibli.[12]
Reception [edit]
Whisper of the Heart was the highest-grossing Japanese flick on the domestic market in 1999, earning ¥one.85 billion in distribution income,[13] and grossing ¥3.fifteen billion in total box role acquirement.[one] Information technology grossed $34.9 million worldwide.[14]
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 94% of critics have given the picture show a positive review based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/x.[15] On Metacritic, the picture has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 based on 4 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[16] Fourth dimension Out London included Whisper of the Heart in their Acme 50 Blithe Film listing.[17] It was also included in Film4's Meridian 25 Animated Film list.[eighteen] On Anime News Network, Michael Toole gave it an overall grade of A−, calling it "cute and evocative; a fine tale of adolescent yearning and aspiration."[nineteen]
Full general producer and screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki defended the film's catastrophe, saying that it was his idea. Miyazaki wanted Shizuku and Seiji to "commit to something."[20]
Spin-off [edit]
Over the course of the pic, Shizuku is working on a fantasy novel that revolves around a cat figurine, named The Baron, which she discovers in Mr. Nishi'due south antique store. In 2002, Studio Ghibli produced a spin-off moving picture The Cat Returns, directed past Hiroyuki Morita and again featuring The Businesswoman, and the stray cat, Muta, in the movie. Subsequently, Muta and the crow (Toto, who is friends with him and the Businesswoman) seem to appear in The Clandestine World of Arrietty every bit 2 skirmishing animals.
Sequel [edit]
In Jan 2020, Sony Pictures Amusement appear that there will be a live-action sequel. The pic will star Nana Seino every bit Shizuku and Tori Matsuzaka as Seiji. Yūichirō Hirakawa will direct.[21] [22] Information technology is scheduled to release of October xiv of 2022, but was scheduled to September of 2022 before ultimately delaying the picture show due to the pandemic.[23] [24]
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External links [edit]
- Official website
- Whisper of the Heart at IMDb
- Mimi o Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart) at The Big Cartoon DataBase
- Whisper of the Center (film) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart
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