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 ...

Based on the manga with the same title, this animated film follows Shizuku, an inquisitive young girl and a voracious reader, who longs to be a writer when she grows up. One day she notices that ...