Mimi wo sumaseba (1995)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 1995
Running Times: 111 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Tokuma Shoten / Nippon Telebi Housoumou / Hakuhoudou / Studio Ghibli
Executive Producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Supervising Producer: Hayao Miyazaki
Producer: Toshio Suzuki
Line Producers: Seiichoro Ujiie, Takashi Shoji

SCRIPT
Script: Hayao Miyazaki
Comic: Aoi Hiiragi

DIRECTION
Director: Yoshifumi Kondo

ANIMATION
Animation Director: Kitaro Kousaka
Key Animator: Shinji Otsuka
Character Designer: Kitaro Kousaka
Rough Character Designs: Yoshifumi Kondô

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Takeshi Seyama

MUSIC
Music: Yuji Nomi
Song: Bill Danoff, John Denver, Taffy Nivert (Take Me Home, Country Roads)
Songs Performed By: Youko Honna (Take Me Home, Country Roads); Olivia Newton-John (Take Me Home, Country Roads)

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Shuji Inoue

DESIGN
Art Director: Satoshi Kuroda
Storyboards: Hayao Miyazaki

CAST
Youko Honna (Shizuku Tsukishima)
Kazuo Takahashi (Seiji Amasawa)
Takashi Tachibana (Yasunari Tsukishima)
Shigeru Muroi (Asako Tsukishima)
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi (The Baron)
Keiju Kobayashi (Chikyu-Ya' shujin)
Minami Takayama (Kousaka-sensei)
Yorie Yamashita (Shiho Tsukishima)
Mayumi Iizuka (Kinuyo)
Toshio Suzuki
Suguru Egawa
Shirô Kishibe
Tatsuya Okada
Satoru Takahashi
Hiromi Yasuda

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Cary Elwes (The Baron)
David Gallagher (Seiji)
Harold Gould (Nishi)
Brittany Snow (Shizuku Tsukishima)
Courtney Thorne-Smith (Shiho)

PLOT SUMMARY

A young girl is surprised to find that all of the books she takes from her local the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. When she later meets a very annoying young would-be violin-maker she begins to wonder if he's the one reading the same books as her.

AVAILABILITY

Japan
Theatrical Distributors: Toho Company Ltd
DVD Distributors: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Canada
Rating: PG

France
Rating: U

Germany
Rating: o.Al

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

TIMELINE

1995
July
15: Japan - theatrical release

2002
November
21: Taiwan - theatrical re-release

POSTER TAGS

Suki na hito ga dekimashita!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

If You Listen Closely
Whisper of the Heart

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Neko no ongaeshi (2002)

KEYWORDS

animation, anime, comic into film, libraries, schools, teenagers, violins, writers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008