Whisper of the Heart

1995 111 min ★ 7.9 Animation, Drama, Family

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: "Seiji Amasawa."

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Cast

Yoko Honna

Shizuku Tsukishima (voice)

Issey Takahashi

Seiji Amasawa (voice)

Takashi Tachibana

Seiya Tsukishima (voice)

Shigeru Muroi

Asako Tsukishima (voice)

Minami Takayama

Teacher Kosaka (voice)

Mayumi Izuka

Kinuyo (voice)

Yorie Yamashita

Shiho Tsukishima (voice)

Keiju Kobayashi

Shiro Nishi (voice)

Naohisa Inoue

Tall Friend of Mr. Nishi (voice)

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

The Baron (voice)

Details

Director

Yoshifumi Kondo

Screenplay

Hayao Miyazaki

Tagline

"I found someone I like."

Status

Released

Original Language

JA

Production

Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokuma Shoten, Hakuhodo

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

September 17, 2026

★ 7/10

"Shizuku" is a serial reader. She has a voracious appetite for books and can quite literally start at one end of the public library shelf and work her way along to the other. She's also studious and reasonably academic, with aspirations to go onto high school at the end of this semester - much to the joy of her parents and her slightly over-bearing sister "Shiro". Then she meets a cat! A mischievo...