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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...