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.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.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.
Yoko Honna
- Shizuku Tsukishima
- (voice)
- (as Youko Honna)
Issei Takahashi
- Seiji Amasawa
- (voice)
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
- The Baron
- (voice)
Keiju Kobayashi
- Shiro Nishi
- (voice)
Maiko Kayama
- Yuko Harada
- (voice)
Yoshimi Nakajima
- Sugimura
- (voice)
Minami Takayama
- Kosaka-sensei
- (voice)
Mayumi Izuka
- Kinuyo
- (voice)
- (as Mayumi Iizuka)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis marked the first use by Studio Ghibli of digital composition, meaning that elements of a scene were composed using a computer. In this case, it's the flying scene with Baron within Shizuku's story. The scene contains many independent elements, including the minor "planets" and Shizuku's characters. Although all these elements were animated by traditional means, they were combined using computer technology.
- GoofsIt is not clear whether this is a mistake or a hint that the Baron is alive, but in every scene that the Baron is shown, he looks different than the time before (position of hands, cane and hat).
- Crazy creditsDuring the credits we see people walk by the bridge. The "stray" cat (the one with many names) walks by the bridge as well. Also the young students who had struggled with unrequited love, named Sugimura and Yuko in the American version, meet on the bridge and appear to begin a dating relationship.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Neko no ongaeshi (2002)
- SoundtracksTake Me Home, Country Roads
Written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver
Performed by Olivia Newton-John
Featured review
Can an animated movie make you feel things? Can it conjur up emotions from the viewers? Not all can of course, but if you look to Japan and to movies like the one on hand here, the answer is yes. Generally speaking anything that came out of Studio Ghibli can be considered high quality. And I speak past tense, because it does unfortunately not exist anymore.
But they put out so many movies, you will have a good time (re)visiting them. This is one of them, with unlikely two leads ... well unlikely at first to actually be together. It feels so real relationship wise, it really gets to you. Even following the cat, is something you may or should be able to connect with curious wise. A very good movie, with colorful characters - no pun intended.
But they put out so many movies, you will have a good time (re)visiting them. This is one of them, with unlikely two leads ... well unlikely at first to actually be together. It feels so real relationship wise, it really gets to you. Even following the cat, is something you may or should be able to connect with curious wise. A very good movie, with colorful characters - no pun intended.
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Susurros del corazón
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $498,156
- Gross worldwide
- $4,420,615
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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