Quick Overview

Based on a manga by Aoi Hiiragi, the gentle coming-of-age story Whisper of the Heart (1995) was scripted and storyboarded by Hayao Miyazaki, and directed by the late Yoshifumi Kondo. Shizuku Tsukishima is an absent-minded, insecure junior high school student who reads book after book of fairy tales, helps her friends, and does most of her chores, but remains dissatisfied. When she encounters a wonderfully supercilious cat on the train, she follows him and meets Seiji Amasawa, a student in her class who hopes to become a violin maker. Seiji’s commitment to his dream helps Shizuku find her voice, literally and figuratively: she realizes she wants to become a writer. A statue of a cat in the antique store of Seiji’s kindly grandfather inspires her first story, “Whisper of the Heart.”

Main Features:

Directors: Yoshifumi Kondo
Writers: Screenplay And Storyboard By Hayao Miyazaki
Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 2
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: March 7, 2006
Run Time: 119 minutes