Whisper of the Heart
My lovely friend Katra has introduced me to watching Studio Ghibli, and now I'm on my fourth film, and it's the best thing I have discovered in 2026! My last watch was a movie called Whisper of the Heart, a romantic story about this young couple who are about to join high school and are studying for the high school entrance exams. The main actress is Shuzuki; coincidentally, she keeps checking out from the library the same books as Seiji, and as fate has it, they eventually meet and like each other. Seiji seems to have it all figured out, according to Shuzuki, in that he knows what he wants to do in the future. He wants to go to this town in Italy and make violins. Shuzuki, on the other hand, writes poems and has written a really funny adaptation of the famous song “Country Home,” but she has adapted it to “Concrete Road.” She thinks she wants to go to high school, but she says she just takes a day at a time as it comes. Her meeting with Seiji, who is actually going to be an ap...