Whisper of the Heart (1995)

داستان انیمیشن زمزمه قلب

زمزمهٔ قلب یا نجوای درون Whisper of the Heart (ژاپنی: 耳をすませば هپبورن: Mimi o Sumaseba؟, به‌معنی “اگر به دقت گوش کنی”) انیمه عاشقانه ساختهٔ ۱۹۹۵ به‌کارگردانی یوشیفومی کوندو و نویسندگی هایائو میازاکی است که اقتباسی از مانگایی با همین نام به‌نویسندگی آئوی هیراگی ‏(en)‏ در سال ۱۹۸۹ است. این انیمه را استودیو جیبوری برای توکوما شوتن ‏(en)‏، نیپون تلویژن و هاکوهودو ‏(en)‏ ساخته بود و توهو آن را توزیع کرد. ستاره‌های فیلم یوکو هونا ‏(en)‏، ایسی تاکاهاشی، تاکاشی تاچیبانا ‏(en)‏، شیگرو موروئی، شیگرو تسویوگوچی و کیجو کوبایاشی هستند. این نخستین فیلم سینمایی استودیو جیبوری بود که توسط کسی به‌جز میازاکی یا ایسائو تاکاهاتا کارگردانی شده بود.

زمزمه قلب تنها تجربهٔ کارگردانی کوندو پیش از مرگش در سال ۱۹۹۸ بود. استودیو جیبوری امیدوار بود که کوندو جانشین میازاکی و تاکاهاتا شود.

داستان این انیمه دربارهٔ دختری به نام شیزوکو است. او عاشق مطالعه کردن است اما روزی متوجه شباهت عجیبی می‌گردد. تمام کتاب‌هایی که برای مطالعه از کتابخانه گرفته‌است، قبلاً توسط شخصی به نام سی‌جی آماساوا خوانده شده‌است. در نتیجه شیزوکو تصمیم می‌گیرد به دنبال این اسم برود و بعد از اتفاقاتی که می‌افتد او با پدربزرگ آماساوا آشنا می‌گردد و این آشنایی سبب می‌شود شیزوکو هدف واقعی‌اش را از زندگی بشناسد. کشفی که زندگی او را به‌طور کامل تغییر خواهد داد…

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Whisper of the Heart (Japanese: 耳をすませば, Hepburn: Mimi o Sumaseba, literally “If you listen closely”) is a 1995 Japanese animated romantic coming of age drama film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and written by Hayao Miyazaki based on the 1989 manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo, and distributed by Toho. The film stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and Keiju Kobayashi. It was the first theatrical Studio Ghibli film to be directed by someone other than Miyazaki or Isao Takahata.

Whisper of the Heart was Kondō’s only film as director before his death in 1998. Studio Ghibli had hoped that Kondō would become the successor to Miyazaki and Takahata.^[2]

It was the only theatrical Ghibli film not directed by Miyazaki or Takahata for seven years until The Cat Returns was released in 2002, which focused on a minor character of the film, Baron.

Plot

Shizuku Tsukishima is a 14-year-old student at Mukaihara Junior High School, where she is best friends with Yuko Harada. Living in Tokyo with her parents Asako and Seiya, as well as her older sister Shiho, Shizuku is a bookworm and is keen on writing. During an ordinary evening, she looks through the checkout cards in her library books. She discovers they all have been checked out by Seiji Amasawa (天沢 聖司). Over the next few days, Shizuku encounters a young man, later revealed to be Seiji, who often annoys her.

Finding a cat riding a train, Shizuku follows it to discover an antique shop run by Shiro Nishi. In the shop is a cat statuette nicknamed “The Baron”.

Later at the antique shop, Shizuku sings “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, a song she has been translating for her school graduation, accompanied by Seiji and Nishi. Seiji is revealed to be the grandson of Nishi, and Shizuku and Seiji befriend each other. Seiji is learning to make violins to follow his dream as a master luthier. Days after the two meet, Seiji leaves for Cremona, Italy, for a two-month study with a master violin-maker, but not before professing his admiration for Shizuku’s talents. Firming her resolve, Shizuku decides to test her talents as well. Discussing with Yuko, she decides to pursue her writing seriously during the two months. She asks Nishi if she can write about The Baron, to which Nishi grants his consent on the condition that he will be the first to read the finished story.

Shizuku begins to concoct a fantasy story featuring herself as the female protagonist, the Baron as the male hero who is looking for his lost love, Louise, and the cat she followed from the train (who is, among other names, known as “Moon” and “Muta”) as the story’s villain who took her from him. Devoting her time to her writing, Shizuku eats snacks, stays up until early in the morning, and her school grades drop. Shizuku argues with her family over her grades, and as she continues to push herself into finishing the story before Seiji returns, she begins to lose heart.

When her story is complete, Shizuku delivers the manuscript to Nishi. After Nishi reads Shizuku’s writing and gives her his benevolent assessment, she breaks down in tears as the stress of the last two months finally turns into relief. Consoling her with udon, Nishi reveals to Shizuku that when he studied in Germany in his youth, he found his first love, Louise. They discovered the twin statuettes of the Baron and his female companion in a cafe, but they could only purchase them singly because the female statuette was being repaired at that time. Nishi kept the Baron while Louise would hold onto the Baron’s companion, and they and the two cat statuettes would reunite at a later time. However, the two lovers and the statues were subsequently separated during World War II and were never reunited. In the English dub, Seiji tells Shizuku that The Baron has a missing partner during her second visit to the shop but in the Japanese dialogue he says his grandfather won’t tell anyone the story of the Baron and it is coincidence, intuition, or serendipity that Shizuki creates a missing partner for him, much to Nishi’s surprise.

Deciding she wants to attend high school to learn more about writing, Shizuku is returned home by Nishi and announces to her mother that she will return to studying for her entrance exams full-time. The next morning, she encounters Seiji on his bicycle. He has returned a day early. In the English dub he says he has decided to finish high school before returning to Cremona to become a luthier, the Japanese dialogue says he will be returning after graduation, as planned.

The two ride Seiji’s bike to a lookout and watch the sun rise over the city, where Seiji professes his love for Shizuku and proposes future marriage; she happily accepts.