Whisper of the Heart was the first Studio Ghibli feature not to be directed be either of the co-founders, Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata, although director Yoshifumi Kondo worked from a screenplay and storyboards credited to Miyazaki. Not unlike Takahata’s Only Yesterday, which was released four years earlier, this film possesses a narrative that could easily have received a live-action adaptation. Taken in concert, these productions signaled a new era in Japanese animation. If a simple coming-of-age tale like this was to be produced today in the United States by Disney/Pixar, it would be hailed as “risky” and “groundbreaking.”
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