Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television, Hakuhodo & Studio Ghibli present
WHISPER OF THE HEART
Shizuku Honna Yoko Seiji Takahashi Issei
Shizuku's Father Tachibana Takashi
Shizuku's Mother Muroi Shigeru
Bar on Tsuyuguchi Shigeru
'World Emporium' Proprietor Kobayashi Keiju
- Hello. - Hot, isn't it.
I'm home.
Thanks.
You don't need a bag for just milk!
They put it in one.
Just say 'no'! ...pour me some, too.
Dad, want some barley tea?
Please... I' II come there.
- The word processor open? - I'm still printing.
I should buy an electronic notebook.
You could've gone to your aunt's. too.
No. Shiho wears me out.
Oh, I' ve got work tomorrow.
Do you need lunch?
No, I' II eat out.
The library's busy going to a bar-code system.
I like the book-cards better.
Me, too.
Hey, this isn't right...
What?
Did you leave out a line?
You're right!
Let me go first. I have to get this right or my prof will complain.
Amasawa Seiji
This guy...
You can read, but don't stay up too late.
Yeah... good night.
I thought I'd seen that name before...
Here, too...
Amasawa Seiji
He's taken all these books out before me.
Amasawa Seiji... what's he like? Is he good-Iooking?
Amasawa Seiji
Shizuku! Get up!
I'm leaving!
Did you sleep in your clothes? Put the rice on.
'Bye!'
Oh, no! I' ve got to meet Yuko!
My purse...
You ran back upstairs again?
Yeah.
That's funny...
Try by the phone...
Yes!
...where you left it.
I'm late! Lock the door!
Silly!
It's flying so low!
Today's a lucky day!
Is it ever hot!
How's it going?
Hit it!
Hi, Shizuku!
Hi!
Miss Kosaka?
Tsukishima? What are you doing here?
Could I ask a favor?
Nothing weird, I hope...
Let me in the library!
What?
Can't you wait till school starts?
I've read all my books, and the public library's closed.
I'm reading 20 before school starts.
You've got high-school entrance exams, don't forget.
Hurry it up!
Here it is!
Bring it here.
Give me your card and the book card.
Yes. ma'am.
No one's ever borrowed this book!
It's rare. They don't even have it at the public library.
Donated
'Amasawa' ...Miss!
Do you know who this 'Amasawa' is?
Look what you made me do!
Someone gave it to us. I wouldn't know him.
Ask an older teacher.
Shizuku!
What are you doing here? I've been at the front gate since 11!
If I have to stand in the sun I get more freckles!
Sorry!
Relax, Harada. You take freckles much too seriously.
They're a serious problem, Miss!
Yeah, yeah...OK, out of here, both of you.
Move up! Move up!
I tried, but it' s not going to work. Why not just sing it in English?
'White clouds spreading up over a hill...
'...a road winds up to the town.'
'An old house with small windows...
'An old dog waits for me to come home...
'Country road leading far away...
'The road to my old home town...
West 'Ginia, my mother the mountain...
'My good old home town.'
- That's not bad. - Yes, it is.
It's trite.
Yeah?
I wrote another one.
'Concrete roads, everywhere...
Cut down all the trees, filled in the valleys...
'Western Tokyo...
'Tama Mountain...
'My home town is concrete roads.'
What is this?!
But what's this 'problem'?
You don't need the lyrics yet...
No... are you in love with anyone?
What?
Studying for entrance exams would be easier having someone.
We could encourage each other.
Yuko! You're in love!
You got a love letter?!
Shh!
When? Who? Is he handsome?
He's in another class. He's not bad.
Meet him, then! If you don't like him, just say no!
Yeah, but...
So there's someone else you like!
You can't hide it from me! Confess!
It's Su...Su...
Tsukishima!
Bring me my bag, will you?
Sugimura!
That blue sports bag.
Come on, Tsukishima!
Throw it over here.
Shut up and go back to the bench!
I' m first-string, and we're through to the regionals!
Yuko?
You're in love with Sugimura?
What am I going to do? The way I reacted, he might know!
Don't worry. He's too dense.
What about the guy who wrote you?
I'll think about it a while.
I see.
At least your parents aren' t always after you to study.
Silence isn't always great.
I wonder...
- Oh, no! - What?
I forgot my book! I'll go back.
I'll ride you.
No. You'll be late for cram school.
I'll call you.
That book...
Oh, is it yours?
Here, 'Tsukishima Shizuku'.
How do you know my name?
Guess!
My library card...
I'd forget about 'Concrete Road', though.
You read it!
Jerk! Jerk! Jerk!
Jerk!
'I'd forget about "Concrete Road"... '
Get lost!
I'm home.
Shiho? You're back already?
I'm beat!
I got a ride with someone who was coming this way.
Where's Mom?
Summer Intensive Seminar. Dad's at work.
You could clean up a little...
What about dinner?
I'm going to wash the rice.
Shizuku! The breakf ast things are still out!
I'm getting to it!
Mom's busy! We've got to help!
Do the rice and put away the washing. I'll take a shower and make dinner.
Aunt says come see her when you get into high school.
Are you studying?
Don't think you can take it easy just because Mom and Dad don't bug you.
I know!
She even wanted me to bring home soy sauce!
That's your aunt, all right.
It was the same thing last year.
Yes! It was miso! Boy, was it heavy!
Two kilos of it!
Shizuku! Get up and vacuum by your desk!
I'm washing the sheets.
And airing the bedding.
Where's Mom?
Long gone.
Put that stuff away and take Dad his lunch.
Me?!
Why not? You're going to the library.
Shall I go instead?
And you'll clean the toilet, the bath and the balcony and go to the Co-op?
Don't forget to turn the bedding and fix dinner.
I'm going!
Shizuku!
Mail these. will you?
What?
M-A-I-L!
You don't have to read them!
Take the paper-clip off.
Your boyfriend?
Idiot!
Hey cat...are you alone?
Where are you going?
What's out there?
Hey! Answer me!
I get off here. What about you?
See you.
Hey! A cat!
The library's that way!
And it felt just like the start of a story...
There he is!
No Entrance
What a hill! How far up is he going?
Cat?
Does he live around here?
Hey, cat! Where are you going? Do you live around here?
I never knew there was a place like this way up here...
That's not nice! Going around teasing dogs!
Maybe you're teasing me, too.
I never guessed there was a store like this up here either...
Cool!
Are you that cat?
Oh, hello...
Um...
That's all right. Look around all you want.
The Bar on gets bored.
Is this doll 'the Bar on'?
Yep. Bar on Humbert von Jechingen. Quite the name...
Sorry.
Thanks. I'm fine now.
That's a great clock.
It was sitting in some castle, all rusted out.
Look...
It's beautiful. What is it?
Wait and see.
What great dwarfs!
So you're a young lady who knows about dwarfs, are you?
Watch the face...if it works.
A fairy!
The light shines on the glass. Come up here.
A princess?
That's right.
Are they in love?
But they live in different worlds. He's king of the dwarfs.
Only while the clock is striking 12 is she changed back from a sheep.
But he appears every hour...
... and waits for her.
The artisan who made this must have been disappointed in love.
That's why they both look so sad...
This clock's fast, isn't it...
Only about five minutes. though.
Oh, no!
I've got to be at the library!
Can I come back sometime?
Sure... but go left to get to the library!
I'm right above it!
What a find! A place where stories start!
Fantastic!
Tsukishima!
Tsukishima Shizuku!
Isn't this yours?
Forgetful, aren't you.
Thanks...but how...?
Guess!
The cat! Is that your cat?
You sure eat a big lunch!
No!
'Concrete roads, everywhere' ...
It's not mine! Hey!
Oh, here you are...
What's wrong with you?
It's hard to explain.
I felt like I'd found a treasure hidden in a cave.
Then what someone said buried me alive.
Sounds complicated.
Getting more books?
Seven more to go.
Still at it? What about lunch?
I'll buy something.
You will? Thanks, then.
June 16 th...
Wow! Amasawa's read this one, too!
What's he like?
No! He's not you!
Shizuku! Hurry!
I'm late!
Pass my umbrella.
Rain every day this term!
At least you're studying because you want to.
Sorry.
Study hard!
Don't you worry!
Shizuku!
Hi!
Hurry! We'll be late!
I hate all these tests!
One every day!
Did you answer?
No.
Did he say anything?
I'm going to say no.
Yeah? Maybe that's best.
Sugimura!
Better hurry!
I know!
Time's up. Gather the papers.
See you this afternoon.
Let's go see Miss Kosaka.
Let me go to the teachers' room first.
Sure.
- Tsukishima! - What?
I lucked out on the test!
Isn't that nice.
Everything I studied was on it!
So you're not just a baseball goof...
Yuko's good at guessing, too. Why not study with her?
With Harada?
- Hey, Sugimura! - What?
Come on!
Stop fixing me up!
Was it obvious?
I never just guess!
Sorry!
Excuse me...
A library-book donor? Gee, I don't know...
Sorry to bother you at lunch-time. There's this stamp in it.
Oh...
That's Dr Amasawa.
I've read it. It's a good book!
Yes, very.
What kind of person is he?
He was chairman of the PTA a few years ago.
The PTA? Would you know his given name?
His given name?
Mr. Kimura, do you remember that Dr Amasawa's given name?
Dr. Amasawa? It was 'Koichi'.
Amasawa Koichi...
His youngest son's in your year, Tsukishima. You don't know him?
He is?!
Thank you very much!
Goodbye!
Sorry!
Shizuku, where are you going?
What a surprise!
Tell me about it!
What's with you?!
Sorry!
Hey, where are you going?
He ignored me! Of all the nerve!
Who is he? Where are you going?
He's a jerk! He won't make me avoid him!
I've been carrying her lunch all over!
Tsukishima with a boyfriend?!
Looks like springtime has come for Shizuku at last!
It isn't true!
You met a prince from one of your books?
Is he handsome?
I just want to find out what he's like!
Come on, Yuko, you heard his name. Tell us!
Yuko!
It happened too fast.
'Ma', something, 'Masaki', maybe...
Hmm?
Hmm...
But it's like Tsukishima to run out without hearing the end of something.
You want to know, but you don't...
Your heart beats in misery and ecstasy!
How terribly romantic!
Should you really tease a girl who has just written your lyric?
- You finished?! - Let's see!
O Shizuku! O great poet! We will not transgress again!
All right, then.
I'm not sure...
I don't know about old home towns, so I wrote about what I feel.
This is great!
'Country road. this old road...
'lf I go right to the end...
'Got a feeling it'll take me...
'...to that town, country road.'
This is good, Shizuku. I like it.
It's not hard to sing?
We'll manage.
We can give this to the juniors and sing it at the teachers' thank-you!
There, too?!
Slow down!
I like this part.
'I left because I was alone and I had nothing...
'Pushed away my sadness and pretended I was strong... '
Ladies, the bell.
The sun's come out!
Shizuku!
Come to the choir room! We'll show them your lyrics.
No, I'm going to the library.
There's another test tomorrow...
I'll study there.
Bookworm!
'Bye
Harada...
Can I talk to you for a minute?
It's closed.
Have these flowers been watered?
Bar on's gone... maybe someone bought him.
World Emporium: Nishi Shiro, Prop.
'Nishi Shiro'...maybe that jerk's name is 'Nishi', too.
Shizuku! Shizuku!
Yuko's on the phone!
You'll go deaf, Shizuku.
Yuko?
What? I can't hear you.
I'll be there in a minute.
'Bye.
- Where are you going? - Not far.
What's wrong?
Shizuku!
What's the matter?
What am I going to do?!
The guy who wrote the letter got Sugimura to ask me to answer it!
Uh-oh...
Why you, of all people?!
Hey!
That guy is so dense!
But he doesn't know how you feel about him...
I'll apologize to him. But I can't go to school tomorrow looking like this.
And miss the test?
Yeah.
Oh.
Idiot!
What?
It was easy.
The library again, Shizuku?
I'm going to Yuko's.
Say hello.
Tsukishima!
Wait up!
About Harada...
...then she started crying. Did I say something wrong?
She said, 'Why you, of all people,' didn't she?
Yeah. A guy on the baseball team asked me.
No!
She didn't want to hear something like that from you!
Don't you under stand?!
No, I don't!
Tell me!
You really are dense, you know! She likes you!
What?! No way! I don't need this!
You don't? How do you think Yuko feels?! She stayed home sick today!
But... I like you!
What?!
Don't make jokes at a time like this!
It's not a joke!
I've liked you for a long time!
Not me! You can't!
You don't like me? Or do you have a boyfriend?
I don't have a boyfriend...
But...
I'm sorry!
Wait!
Tell me the truth!
But we've always been friends... I like you, but not...
I'm sorry. I can't say what I mean.
Just friends?
Forever?
I see...
I'm the one who's dense!
The parcel delivery left this with me.
Thank you... again!
You don't have to do this!
We couldn't eat all these ourselves.
Oh, you're home...
Shizuku?
Hi.
Have you been shut out, too?
Do you live here? Are you hungry?
You're not very nice. Just like me.
Why do we change, I wonder? I was always so sweet...
Books don't even excite me like they used to.
There's always someone inside me saying, 'Things aren' t that easy!'
I'm not very nice.
Hey! Tsukishima!
Moon lets you pet him?
Moon, you're not coming in?
Is that his name?
He's like a full moon.
That's why I call him that.
Isn't he yours?
He won't stay in one house.
I heard him called 'Ball' at one place.
I'm sure there's others.
So he does the rounds...
Yes! He commutes, on the train!
The train?
Yes, by himself! That's how I came here. I followed him.
And he brought me to a neat store, just like out of a story.
I insulted him.
I said he wasn't very nice. Just like me.
You're not like Moon at all!
He's half-devil, he is.
- Um... - Would you...
Is your grandfather sick? The store's been closed and I thought...
He's fine. It's a weird store. He doesn't open very often.
I'm glad he's all right.
I can't see Bar on through the window. Did he sell him?
That cat doll? You want to see it? Come on.
Close the door.
It's like we're in the sky!
Afraid of heights?
No, I like high places. This is great.
This is the time it looks best.
In here.