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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)
Om du lyssnar noga (Swedish)
Stimme des Herzens (German)
Susurros del corazón (Spanish)
Szept Serca (Polish)
Шепот Сердца (Russian)
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: 1665 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 527 votes (sub:367, dub:133, ?:9, raw:6, Spa.sub:5, Pol.sub:2, Rus.dub:1, Ger.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 521 votes (sub:369, dub:126, Spa.sub:7, raw:7, Por.sub:3, ?:2, Rus.dub:2, edit.dub:2, Spa.edit.dub:1, Ger.dub:1, Pol.dub:1)
 Very good: 327 votes (sub:227, dub:83, raw:4, Fre.sub:3, ?:3, Spa.sub:2, Pol.sub:1, Por.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Pol.edit.dub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Good: 177 votes (sub:131, dub:41, Spa.sub:2, raw:2, Ita.sub:1)
 Decent: 49 votes (sub:35, dub:9, raw:3, ?:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 30 votes (sub:20, dub:8, Spa.sub:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 13 votes (sub:10, dub:3)
 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 2433 users, rank: #237
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.619 (Excellent-.38), std. dev.: 1.4783, rank: #142
Weighted mean: 8.574 (Excellent-.42), rank: #128 (seen all: 8.59 / seen some: 7.31 / won't finish: 4.21)
Bayesian estimate: 8.568 (Excellent-.43), rank: #42
Running time: 111 minutes
Vintage: 1995-06-03
Premiere date:
1995-07-15 (Japan)
Releases: We have 12
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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DVD
    Whisper of the Heart (DVD) 2006-03-07 (from $22.95)
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
Advertising Producer: Mika Watanabe
Assistant Director:
Hiroyuki Ito
Masahiko Otsuka
Associate Executive Producer:
Tatsumi Yamashita
Tsutomu Otsuka
Chief Executive Producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Color design: Michiyo Yasuda (characters)
Editing Assistant:
Keiko Mizuta
Megumi Uchida
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 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

Japanese companies 

Development: Imagica
In-Between Animation: Telecom Animation Film
Key Animation: Telecom Animation Film
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

English companies 
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)
Optimum Releasing (UK)
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
German companies 
Annouced: Universum-Films

Polish staff 
(none)
Polish companies 
Distributor: Monolith Films
Polish cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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