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Whisper of the Heart
Why this pick
Like Only Yesterday, it finds profound feeling in ordinary life, using gentle observation, memory, and small creative awakenings rather than dramatic plot turns.
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MOVIE1991 1h 59m JPN
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Why this pick
Takahata again pairs a delicately hand-drawn style with a woman-centered emotional perspective, balancing the pleasures of childhood and nature against adulthood’s painful expectations.
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When Marnie Was There
Why this pick
Its rural seaside setting, introspective heroine, and wistful attention to recollection create a similarly tender, quietly cathartic experience.
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In This Corner of the World
Why this pick
It shares Takahata’s gift for making domestic routines, landscape, and fleeting personal memories feel vivid, while following a young woman’s resilient inner life.
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The Red Turtle
Why this pick
For Only Yesterday’s love of natural rhythms and visual storytelling, this nearly wordless fable offers a spare, contemplative encounter with adulthood, love, and passing time.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
On a trip to the countryside to pick safflowers, a young Japanese woman recalls her life when she was ten years old.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Yoko Honna
Taeko (voice)
Yuuki Masuda
Hirota (voice)
Issey Takahashi
Additional Voices (voice)
Mayumi Iizuka
Tsuneko Tani (voice)
Ichirou Nagai
Torahige (voice)