Whisper of the Heart, a 1995 adaptation of the Aoi Hiiragi manga Mimi o Sumaseba, dares to subvert this standard. Director Yoshifumi Kondō and screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki follow 14-year-old ...

Released during the summer of 1995, Whisper of the Heart will feel quite different to anyone who only knows Studio Ghibli for their imaginative fantasy films. (The art commonly used to promote the ...

My Neighbor Totoro/Whisper Of The Heart. Shortly after My Neighbor Totoro became a massive hit in Japan, Miyazaki's partner in Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, made his own masterpiece about young ...

Who could ever say no to Studio Ghibli? For more than two and a half decades, the Japanese animation studio set-up by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata have continued to put out success after ...

A sequel for "Whisper of the Heart" has just been announced, but this time around, it won’t be animated. Instead, it’s a live-action movie set 10 years after the events of the anime. During the decade ...

After “Whisper of the Heart,” he was expected to take over the studio when Miyazaki retired. But Kondô died suddenly in 1998, at the age of 47. The movie he made, though, lives on.