Voice of the Heart - Whisper of the Heart
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | Voice of the Heart - Whisper of the Heart |
| Original title | 耳 を す ま せ ば |
| transcription | Mimi o Sumase ba |
 | |
| Country of production |
 Japan
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| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| Studio | Studio Ghibli |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yoshifumi Kondo |
| script | Hayao Miyazaki |
| production | Toshio Suzuki |
| music | Yūji Nomi |
Voice of the Heart - Whisper of the Heart ( Japanese 耳 を す ま せ ば , Mimi o Sumase ba , eng . "If you prick up your ears") is a Japanese cartoon ( anime ) by Studio Ghibli from 1995. It is based on the eponymous manga by Aoi Hiiragi . The film was released in German in November 2007.
action
14-year-old Shizuku Tsukishima attends middle school in Tama New Town , a suburb of Tokyo . Shizuku enjoys reading and writing in her spare time. Her parents preferred to wish that she would take more care of school. One day Shizuku notices a cat on the train that is getting off at the same station as her. When she follows her, she ends up in front of a rather strange looking shop. When she enters, Shizuku meets the shopkeeper, a friendly old man.
After leaving the shop, she meets Seiji Amasawa, a boy from her school. She has discovered his name very often in the library cards, because he has read each of the books she has read before her. Seiji is the shop owner's grandson. The first meeting of the two is short and uncomfortable, in the end the two slowly get closer. Shizuku learns that Seiji would like to become a violin maker. Ashamed by not having similar desires, she decides to start writing a novel. However, this leads to her neglecting her studies even further and thereby falling further behind in school.
When Seiji goes on a trip to Italy to do an internship with an instrument maker, his grandfather Shizuku encourages and supports her in her novel project. At the end of the film, Shizuku ends her story and decides to resume her schoolwork as well. Seiji comes back from Italy after about two months and makes Shizuku a marriage proposal for the later future, which she gladly accepts.
publication
Mimi o Sumase ba is a manga by Aoi Hiiragi . The manga belongs to the group of shōjo manga , so it was written especially for girls and was published in 1989 in Japan in individual chapters in the manga magazine Ribon . The Shūeisha publishing house also brought out these individual chapters in an anthology.
There is also a sequel called Shiawase na Jikan ( Happy Time ). The sequel takes place two years later and is about Shizuku and Seiji.
background
The cost of producing the anime was 800 million yen . Whisper of the Heart was the first Japanese film that could come up with Dolby Digital .
During the film, Shizuku translates the song Take Me Home, Country Roads into Japanese for the choir at her school. She also writes her own Japanese version of the song Concrete Road about her hometown in West Tokyo. These songs play a role at various points in history.
The novel Shizuku is writing is a fantasy novel about a cat named Baron Moon. She saw this cat in Mr. Nishi's antique shop Chikyū-ya (Eng. "Earth Shop"). Hayao Miyazaki asked Aoi Hiiragi to write a story about it, whereupon Baron: Neko no Danshaku ( バ ロ ン 猫 の 男爵 , dt. "Baron: Cat Baron") was created, which in turn was the model for the Ghibli film The Kingdom of Cats .
The film was released in German dubbed on November 26, 2007 on Universum Anime on DVD, on September 27, 2013 on Blu-ray .
synchronization
The synchronization was done by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shizuku Tsukishima | Yōko Honna | Brittany Snow | Gabrielle Pietermann |
| Seiji Amasawa | Kazuo Takahashi | David Gallagher | Max fields |
| Asako Tsukishima | Shigeru Muroi | Jean Smart | Claudia Lössl |
| Seiya Tsukishima | Takashi Tachibana | James Sikking | Gerd Meyer |
| Baron Humbert von Gikkingen | Shigeru Tsuyuguchi | Cary Elwes | Manou Lubowski |
| Shirō Nishi | Keiju Kobayashi | Harold Gould | Erich Ludwig |
| Yuko Harada | Maiko Kayama | Ashley Tisdale | Jacqueline Belle |
| Sugimira | Yoshimi Nakajima | Martin Spanjers | Johannes Wolko |
| Shiho Tsukishima | Yorie Yamashita | Courtney Thorne-Smith | Maren Rainer |
criticism
“With a great sense of atmosphere, Yoshifumi Kondo […] tells the story of 14-year-old Shizuku […]. Only in a few scenes does the film slide into the fantastic when Shizuku tries to be a novelist. Otherwise, however, he remains closely connected to the everyday and wonderfully sums up the emotional worlds of the two young protagonists. The realistic background drawings impress with their richness of detail and, above all, through the play with light reflections, contribute to the poetic mood of the story, which not only goes to Shizuku's heart, but also to the audience. "
Web links
- Whisper of the Heart - Whisper of the Heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Whisper of the Heart - Whisper of the Heart atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Detailed information about the film at Nausicaa.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for the Voice of the Heart - Whisper of the Heart . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 203 DVD).
- ↑ http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~wadakun/getro/animation/Mimi.html
- ↑ バ ロ ン 猫 の 男爵 . Studio Ghibli, archived from the original on August 4, 2010 ; Retrieved December 29, 2013 (Japanese).
- ↑ Voice of the Heart. Animexx.de, accessed December 8, 2013 .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Voice of the heart. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
- ↑ VOICE OF THE HEART - WHISPER OF THE HEART . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .