Useless Movie Trivia For
Whispers of the Heart
Memorable Movie Quotes
Shizuku: [speaking to The Baron] Strange, its as if I have known you for a long time.
Trivia
There is a billboard advertising the movie in the movie itself.
The first Japanese film in Dolby Digital.
This marked the first use by Studio Ghibli of digital composition, meaning that elements of a scene were composed using a computer. In this case, it's the flying scene with Baron within Shizuku's story. The scene contains a lot of elements moving independently, including the small "planets" and Shizuku's characters. Although all these elements were animated by tradition means, they were combined using computer technology.
The first and only movie directed by Yoshifumi Kondo.
The town Shizuku lives in was modeled after Seiseki Sakuragaoka, a hilly town in the Tama Hills, in West Tokyo.
"Take Me Home, Country Road" at the beginning of the movie was sung by Olivia Newton-John. The versions which Shizuku sang throughout the movie and at the end were sung by HONNA Youko, the voice actress for Shizuku.
During the closing credits, Shizuku and Seiji can be seen at the top of the screen, riding over the bridge on Seiji's bicycle. Later in the credits, Yuko meets Sugimura on the bridge and they walk off together. On the American (Disney) version of the DVD, these closing scenes are fully visible in the English-language version of the film. However, in the Japanese-language version on the same DVD, the top of the screen is cropped during the closing credits, cutting off the heads of the people passing over the bridge.
Goofs
It is not clear whether this is a mistake or a hint that the Baron is alive, but in every scene that the Baron is shown, he looks different than the time before (position of hands, cane and hat).
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