On February 3, New York and Los Angeles will host live-action screenings of the sequel to "Whisper of the Heart."

By Sonu | Feb 1, 2023 | 3 Min Read follow icon Follow Us

The live-action sequel to the Aoi Hiiragi manga Whisper of the Heart (Mimi o Sumaseba) will be shown in a few New York and Los Angeles theatres on Friday, according to the Berlin distributor Capelight Pictures. After that, on June 20, the movie will be accessible via video on demand. A trailer with English subtitles was made available by the company. Seiji expresses a desire to train as a luthier in Cremona, Italy, one of the most renowned locations in the world for the manufacture of orchestral string instruments, in the original movie. On February 3, New York and Los Angeles will host live-action screenings of the sequel to “Whisper of the Heart.”

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the live-action movie’s initial release date of September 18, 2020 was pushed ahead to October 14, 2022.

The movie stars Nana Seino as Shizuku Tsukishima and Tori Matsuzaka as Seiji Amasawa. Nana Seino is best known for her live-action roles in Kyou Kara Ore Wa!!, After the Rain, Nowhere Girl, and Tokyo Tribe films. Tori Matsuzaka is best known for her roles in Hello World, Himitsu – Top Secret, .hack/The Movie, Gatchaman, Ky, Koi o Shizuku and Seiji are portrayed by Runa Yasuhara and Tsubasa Nakagawa as they were in middle school, respectively.

Shizuku’s childhood buddy and member of the baseball team, Tatsuya Sugimura, is portrayed as Yuki Yamada. Tatsuya developed a crush on Shizuku. In the role of Shizuku’s best friend Yūko Harada, played by Rio Uchida, Sugimura was Shizuku’s love interest in middle school. Sugimura and Yūko were in middle school as they portray the characters “Towa Araki” and “Sara Sumitomo”.

The film is being directed by Yūichirō Hirakawa and will be released by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Shochiku. He has previously worked on the live-action versions of The Promised Neverland, ERASED/Boku dake ga Inai Machi, Waiting for Spring, Rookies, and JIN projects. The theme song for the movie is a rendition of “Tsubasa o Kudasai” by Michio Yamagami by Anne Watanabe.

Ten years have passed after the events of the original manga when the new movie’s plot begins. Shizuku has already given up on writing novels at the age of 24, but she still puts in a lot of effort as a children’s book editor at a publishing house to help sell books. Even though the distance between Seiji and Shizuku is increasing, he is still pursuing his desire of living abroad.

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Yoshifumi Kondō and Studio Ghibli’s 1995 animated picture was based on the original manga. Shizuku, a junior high school bookworm, meets Seiji Amasawa, the grandson of the owner of the mysterious antique business, by coincidence. The two meet in the course of the narrative. Seiji, a beginner violin maker, has also caught Shizuku’s attention because she’s been observing for a while that his name appears on the checkout cards of the books she takes out from the library. Shizuku is motivated to follow her dream of becoming a novelist by Seiji’s passion for manufacturing violins.

The manga was released by Hiiragi in 1989’s Ribon, a publication for shjo manga produced by Shueisha. Mimi o Sumaseba: Shiawase Na Jikan, a sequel manga by Hiiragi, and Baron: The Cat Returns, a spinoff, both appeared in 1995 and 2002, respectively. English edition of Baron: The Cat Returns was released by Viz Media. The Cat Returns movie by Studio Ghibli and Hiroyuki Morita was inspired by that comic.

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