Whisper of the Heart
| Whisper of the Heart | |
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| Kanji | 耳をすませば |
| Revised 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 | |
| Cinematography | Atsushi Okui |
| Edited by | Takeshi Seyama |
| Music by | Yuji Nomi |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | ¥3.15 billion (Japan) |
Whisper of the Heart is a 1995 Japanese animated coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and written by Hayao Miyazaki based on Aoi Hiiragi's 1989 manga Mimi o Sumaseba. Produced by Studio Ghibli and distributed by Toho, the film stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Keiju Kobayashi.
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 Isao Takahata.
A spin-off film, The Cat Returns, was released in 2002, which focused on a minor character of the film, the Baron.