Studio Ghibli Collection

Whisper of the Heart

Shizuku Tsukishima is a bit of a book-worm, spending her last summer vacation in junior high school reading and translating popular foreign music into Japanese. With aspirations to one day become a writer, Shizuku can’t help but notice that the name Seiji Amasawa appears on every one of the books she borrows from the library.

Through a series of curious and magical incidents, she comes to meet Seiji and discovers he has dreams of becoming a famous violinmaker in Italy. While their life-long goals pull them in two different directions, Shizuku and Seiji are determined to remain true to their strong feelings for one another.

• “A Disney film, forever hurrying on to the next plot point, would usually spare little time for such seemingly extraneous details and moments, but they are the very soul of ‘Whisper of the Heart’.”

  – THE JAPAN TIMES

• “With its wonderful marriage of dreamlike flights of fancy and touching rite of passage, ‘Whisper of the Heart’ could bring a tear to a glass eye. Inspirational.”

  – MIDNIGHT EYE

• “Tired of raucous robots, big-busted babes and gigantic gatling guns? You just might find this a refreshing change.”

  – THE ANIME CAFE

• “Instead of attempting to show us a fantasy world with their animation, the filmmakers use their medium to accentuate the small details in this one.”

  – Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM