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Whisper of the Heart
1995
· Movie
· 111 min
A
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #52
- IMDb #74
- Google retired #19
- Rotten Tomatoes #60
- Metacritic #96
- Letterboxd #39
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #75
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #85
- Metacritic Audience #85
- Criticker #15
- Douban #20
- Kinopoisk #17
- AlloCiné #93
Every rating
68–98
out of 100
A bookish junior high school girl notices that all of her library books have been previously checked out by the same boy. Intrigued, she seeks him out, and they form a friendship. Inspired by him and her own ambitions, she sets out on a personal journey to write a story and discover her own identity and potential.
Details
- Director
- Yoshifumi Kondo
- Writer
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Based on
- Whisper of the Heart by Aoi Hiiragi
- Released
- 15 July 1995
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- G
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