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Whisper of the Heart (movie)

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[ adapted from Mimi wo Sumaseba (manga) ]

Alternative title:
If you listen carefully
Mimi wo Sumaseba (Japanese)
Stimme des Herzens (German)
Susurros del corazón (Spanish)
Szept Serca (Polish)
心之谷 (Chinese (Taiwan))
耳をすませば (Japanese)
귀를 기울이면 (Korean)
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: Shizuku Tsukishima, a young girl in junior high, loves to read. Yet, every time she opens a library book, it seems the same name appears on the cards: "Seiji Amasawa". As Shizuku learns who this person is, she also begins to learn about herself and her goals in life - a discovery that will change her life forever.
User Ratings: 1591 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 502 votes (sub:355, dub:121, ?:8, raw:6, Spa.sub:5, Pol.sub:2, Rus.dub:1, Ger.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 503 votes (sub:358, dub:119, raw:7, Spa.sub:7, Por.sub:3, edit.dub:2, ?:2, Rus.dub:2, Pol.dub:1, Spa.edit.dub:1, Ger.dub:1)
 Very good: 313 votes (sub:220, dub:76, raw:4, Fre.sub:3, ?:3, Spa.sub:2, Por.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Pol.edit.dub:1, Ita.sub:1, Pol.sub:1)
 Good: 164 votes (sub:121, dub:38, raw:2, Spa.sub:2, Ita.sub:1)
 Decent: 48 votes (sub:33, dub:10, raw:3, Spa.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 28 votes (sub:20, dub:7, Spa.sub:1)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:10, dub:2)
 Weak: 10 votes (dub:6, sub:4)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Awful: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 2337 users, rank: #237
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.621 (Excellent-.37), std. dev.: 1.482, rank: #99
Weighted mean: 8.578 (Excellent-.42), rank: #92 (seen all: 8.59 / seen some: 7.29 / won't finish: 3.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.571 (Excellent-.42), rank: #43
Running time: 111 minutes
Vintage: 1995-06-03
Premiere date:
1995-07-15 (Japan)
Releases: We have 11
Opening Theme:
"Take Me Home, Country Roads" by Olivia Newton-John
Ending Theme:
"カントリー・ロード (Country Road)" by Youko Honna
Links: We have 6
Trivia: We have 5
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Related releases:
    Whisper of the Heart (DVD) 2006-03-07 (from $20.99)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Hayao Miyazaki (fantasy sequence)
Yoshifumi Kondô

Screenplay: Hayao Miyazaki

Storyboard: Hayao Miyazaki

Music: Yuuji Nomi

Original Manga: Aoi Hiiragi

Character Design: Kitaro Kousaka

Art director: Satoshi Kuroda

Animation director: Kitaro Kousaka

Translation: Mamiko Suzuki ("Country Road" lyrics)

Sound director: Naoko Asanashi

Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui

Executive producer:
Seiichiro Ujiie
Takashi Shouji

Producer:
Hayao Miyazaki
Toshio Suzuki

Animation Check:
Akiko Teshima
Mayumi Ohmura
Rie Nakagome

Assistant director:
Hiroyuki Ito
Masahiko Otsuka

Assistant Editor:
Keiko Mizuta
Megumi Uchida

Associate Executive Producer:
Tatsumi Yamashita
Tsutomu Otsuka

Background Art:
Akira Yamakawa
Katsu Hisamura
Kazuo Oga
Kiyomi Oota
Kyoko Naganawa
Naohisa Inoue (fantasy sequence)
Naomi Kasugai
Naoya Tanaka
Nizo Yamamoto
Ryoko Ina
Sayaka Hirahara
Seiki Tamura
Yoshikazu Fukutome
Youji Takeshige

Chief Executive Producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma

Color design: Michiyo Yasuda (characters)

Color Key:
Akiko Ono
Minako Oshiro

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Inbetween / Clean-up Animation:
Komasa
Akihiko Adachi
Alexandra Weihrauch
Atsuko Matsushita
Eiji Yamamori
Eiko Miyabayashi
Emiko Iwayanagi
Eriko Shibata
Go Kimura (Telecom Animation Film)
Hana Kikuchi
Hiroko Takatani (Telecom Animation Film)
Hiromi Furuya
Hiroyuki Tanji (Telecom Animation Film)
Hisako Matsuda
Hitomi Tateno
Ikuo Kuwana
Katsutoshi Nakamura
Kazuko Hirai (Telecom Animation Film)
Kazuko Shibata
Kazumi Yokoyama
Kazuyoshi Onoda
Keiko Tomizawa
Keiko Yozawa (Telecom Animation Film)
Kiyoko Makita
Koujirou Tsuruoka
Kumiko Ohta
Kuri Sawa
Makiko Suzuki
Mariko Matsuo
Mariko Suzuki
Masako Sakano
Maya Fujimori (Telecom Animation Film)
Mayu Yazawa (Telecom Animation Film)
Mayumi Yamamoto
Misuzu Kurata
Miyoko Shikibu (Telecom Animation Film)
Naoko Sugaya (Telecom Animation Film)
Natsuko Takahashi (Telecom Animation Film)
Noriko Odaka (Telecom Animation Film)
Reiko Mano
Rie Fujimura
Rie Kondo
Rie Niidome
Ritsuko Shiina
Seiko Higashi
Shin Itagaki (Telecom Animation Film)
Shinobu Tsuneki
Sumie Nishido
Tadashi Matsuzaki (Telecom Animation Film)
Takahiro Suzuki (Telecom Animation Film)
Yoko Nagashima
Youko Hamada (Telecom Animation Film)
Yuichi Katayama
Yukari Yamaura
Yumiko Ito
Yumiko Kitajima

Key Animation:
Ai Kagawa
Atsuko Otani
Atsuko Tanaka (Telecom Animation Film)
Hideaki Yoshio
HIroko Minowa
Hiroyuki Aoyama (Telecom Animation Film)
Hiroyuki Inoue
Hisao Yokobori (Telecom Animation Film)
Ken'ichi Yamada
Kenichi Konishi
Kenichi Yoshida
Kuniyuki Ishii
Makiko Futaki
Masaaki Endou
Masako Shinohara
Masaru Matsuse
Masashi Ando
Masaya Saito
Noriko Moritomo
Shinji Otsuka
Shinsaku Sasaki
Takehiro Noda
Takeshi Inamura
Teiichi Takiguchi (Telecom Animation Film)
Toshio Kawaguchi
Tsutomu Awada
Yoshiyuki Momose
Yuichiro Yano (Telecom Animation Film)

Photography:
Junji Yabuta
Tamaki Kojo
Wataru Takahashi

Production producer: Hayao Miyazaki

Recording: Shuji Inoue

Recording Assistant:
Tsukuru Takagi
Tsutomu Asakura

Rough Character Designs: Yoshifumi Kondô

Sound Effects: Michihiro Ito

Sound Effects Assistant:
Takahisa Ishino
Tomohiro Horiuchi

Special Effects: Kunji Tanifuji

Theme Song Arrangement: Yuuji Nomi

Theme Song Composition:
Bill Danoff
John Denver
Taffy Nivert

Theme Song Lyrics:
Bill Danoff
John Denver
Taffy Nivert

Theme Song Performance:
Olivia Newton-John (OP)
Youko Honna (ED)

 

Issei Takahashi as Seiji Amasawa

Youko Honna as Shizuku Tsukishima

Keiju Kobayashi as Shirou Nishi (Owner of Chikyuuya)

Takashi Tachibana as Yasuya Tsukishima (Shizuku's father)

Yorie Yamashita as Shiho Tsukishima

Daisuke Fujita as Male student

Haruhiko Nakamura as Yuuko's father

Maiko Yoshiyama as Yuuko Harada

Masako Usui as Math teacher

Mayumi Iizuka as Kinuyo

Minami Takayama as Kousaka-sensei

Shigeru Muroi as Asako Tsukushima (Shizuku's mother)

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as The Baron

Shiro Kishibe as Homeroom teacher

Suguru Egawa as Baseball commentator

Yoshimi Nakajima as Sugimura

Naohisa Inoue

Tatsuya Okada

Japanese companies 

Animation Cooperation:
Anime Torotoro
Group Donguri
Oh production
Studio Cockpit
Studio Takuranke

Development: Imagica

Finish Animation:
IM Studio
Studio Ad
Studio Killy
Studio OZ
Trace Studio M

In-Between Animation: Telecom Animation Film

Key Animation: Telecom Animation Film

Production:
Tokuma Shoten
Whisper of the Heart Production Committee

Production Committee:
Hakuhodo Inc.
NTV
Studio Ghibli
Tokuma Shoten

Production Studio: Studio Ghibli

Recording Studio: Tokyo TV Center

Sound Production: Studio Moon

Technical Cooperation: MURAO

English cast 
English staff 
(none)

Brittany Snow as Shizuku Tsukishima

David Gallagher as Seiji Amasawa

Courtney Thorne-Smith as Shiho Tsukishima

Harold Gould as Shirou Nishi

Ashley Tisdale as Yuko Harada

Cary Elwes as The Baron

Jean Smart as Asako

Corey Burton

Jeff Glen Bennett

Melissa Disney

English companies 

ADR Production: Buena Vista Sound Services

Broadcaster: Turner Classic Movies

Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)
Optimum Releasing (UK)

Licensed by: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Dubbing Director: Alfonso Laguna (Spain dub)

Adaptation: Alfonso Laguna (Spain dub)

 

Ana Esther Alborg as Shizuku Tsukishima (Spain dub)

Luis Miguel Cajal as Seiji Amasawa (Spain dub)

Eduardo Moreno as Shirou Nishi (Spain dub)

Inés Blázquez as Shiho Tsukishima (Spain dub)

Alfonso Laguna as Asako Tsukishima (Spain dub)

Eduardo Bosch as The Baron (Spain dub)

Fernando Hernández as Musician (Spain dub)

Javier Balas as Sugimura (Spain dub)

Jesus Barreda as Male student (Spain dub)

Olga Velasco as Yūko Harada (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Dubbing: Soundub (Madrid, Spain)

German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 

Gabriele Pietermann as Shizuku Tsukishima

Max Felder as Seiji Amasawa

Erich Ludwig as Shiro Nishi

Maren Rainer as Shiho Tsukishima

Claudia Lössl as Asako Tsukishima

Gerd Meyer as Seiya Tsukishima

Inez Günther as Kosaka

Jacqueline Belle as Yûko Harada

Johannes Wolko as Sugimura

Katharina Berthold as Kinuyo

Manou Lubowski as Baron

German companies 

Annouced: Universum-Films


Polish staff 
(none)
Polish companies 

Distributor: Monolith Films

Polish cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Deltamac (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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