A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
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Cast
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Yoko Honna | ... | Shizuku Tsukishima (voice) (as Youko Honna) |
| Issey Takahashi | ... | Seiji Amasawa (voice) (as Issei Takahashi) | |
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Takashi Tachibana | ... | Seiya Tsukishima (voice) |
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Shigeru Muroi | ... | Asako Tsukishima (voice) |
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Shigeru Tsuyuguchi | ... | The Baron (voice) |
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Keiju Kobayashi | ... | Shiro Nishi (voice) |
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Yorie Yamashita | ... | Shiho Tsukishima (voice) |
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Maiko Kayama | ... | Yuko Harada (voice) |
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Yoshimi Nakajima | ... | Sugimura (voice) |
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Minami Takayama | ... | Kosaka-sensei (voice) |
| Mayumi Izuka | ... | Kinuyo (voice) (as Mayumi Iizuka) | |
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Mai Chiba | ... | Nao (voice) |
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Satoru Takahashi | ... | (voice) |
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Akiko Sakaguchi | ... | (voice) |
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Hiromi Yasuda | ... | (voice) |
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Storyline
A young Japanese middle school girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow... could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker like his grandfather. Written by Dana Anthony <ranthony@intrex.net>
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Country:
JapanRelease Date:
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Written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver
Performed by Olivia Newton-John
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The town Shizuku lives in was modeled after Seiseki Sakuragaoka, a hilly town in the Tama Hills, in West Tokyo. See more »Goofs
(At 22:56 - 23:20) When Shizuku first follows Muta the cat into Mr. Nishi's antique shop. Just as Shizuku watches Muta enter the shop, we are shown a golden pig statue sitting on the ground being used as a door stop to hold the shop door open, with its head angled so that it is looking to its right (to the left from our perspective.) But in the next scene we see that the pig's head is not angled to either side at all - and is instead shown looking straight ahead. See more »Quotes
Shizuku: When the afternoon air currents mix, we can even touch the stars without fear!See more »
Crazy Credits
In the credit, we can also see Shizuku and Seiji riding on a bicycle. See more »Soundtracks
Take Me Home, Country RoadsWritten by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver
Performed by Olivia Newton-John
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Whisper of the Heart by Kondou is the most endearing, personal, magical, and majestically warming Anime based Reality I've seen in a while. It's up there with Grave of the Fireflies, and Barefoot Gen--even though this film's contents is more in the line of soul mates, aspirations, personal treasures, unrequited love, and John Denver.
Disney bought the rights for it, so for those whore lacking--be patient, although you can always get a Jpn DVD version that contains English Sub, just be sure that your DVD plays that certain region.
A great anime for those who seeks solace and inspiration, nothing more nor less. Sure it lacks violence, guns, nudity, fast cars, robots--and amongst others that can render a film to the point of being excessive, brutal, and profane--but with love, destiny, personal adventures, and a sensuous story--you couldn't go wrong with this lovely thing.
I cannot emphasize it anymore than that--watch it with a love one.