![]() ![]() When her story is complete, Nishi reads it and gives his honest assessment. As she continues to push herself, her anxiety mounts. She argues with her family over her grades and future. Devoting her time to her writing, Shizuku stays up until early in the morning, and her school grades drop. Shizuku concocts a fantasy story featuring herself as the protagonist, the Baron as the male hero looking for his lost love, Louise, and the cat from the train (a neighborhood stray who is, among other names, known as "Moon" and "Muta") as the antagonist. She asks Nishi if she can write a story featuring the Baron, to which Nishi grants his consent in exchange for being the first to read her story. Inspired by him pursuing his dream, Shizuku decides to pursue her writing seriously during the two months. Days after, Seiji leaves for Cremona, Italy for a two-month study with a master violin-maker. Seiji admits that he admires Shizuku's talents and that he had been checking out a large number of books in the hopes that she would eventually notice him. The boy is revealed to be Seiji, Nishi's grandson, and Shizuku and Seiji finally befriend each other. The pair perform "Take Me Home, Country Roads". She begs him to play the violin for her, and he agrees, but on the condition that she sings along. He shows her the workshop, where she discovers that he is learning to make violins to pursue his dream of becoming a master luthier. Shizuku later encounters the boy again at the antique shop. Shizuku is ecstatic about finding "a place where stories begin". In the shop is a cat statuette nicknamed The Baron. Finding a cat riding a train, Shizuku follows it to discover an antique shop run by Shirō Nishi. Over the next few days, she encounters a boy who annoys her by teasing her about "Concrete Roads", a set of original lyrics describing Tama New Town that Shizuku based on the song " Take Me Home, Country Roads". One evening, she looks through the checkout cards in her library books and discovers they were all checked out previously by someone named Seiji Amasawa. ![]() She lives in Tokyo with her parents Asako and Seiya and older sister Shiho, and is keen on creative writing. Shizuku Tsukishima is a 14-year-old student at Mukaihara Junior High School, where she is best friends with Yūko Harada. Ī spin-off film, The Cat Returns, was released in 2002, which focused on a minor character of the film, the Baron. Studio Ghibli had hoped that Kondō would become the successor to Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Whisper of the Heart was Kondō's only film as director before his death in 1998. The film stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Keiju Kobayashi. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo. ![]() 'If You Listen Carefully') is a 1995 Japanese animated romantic drama film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and written by Hayao Miyazaki based on the 1989 manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. Whisper of the Heart ( Japanese: 耳をすませば, Hepburn: Mimi o Sumaseba, lit. ![]()
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