Whisper of The Heart (film)

Whisper Of The Heart (film)

Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば, Mimi o Sumaseba?, lit. "If you listen closely") is a 1995 Japanese animated drama film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo and scripted by Hayao Miyazaki based on the manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. The film stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Keiju Kobayashi. It was the first theatrical Studio Ghibli film to be directed by someone other than Miyazaki or Isao Takahata, and the only film to be directed by Yoshifumi Kondō, who died in 1998 of a ruptured aneurysm at the age of 47. Studio Ghibli had hoped that Kondō would become the successor to Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.