“Whisper of the Heart” by Yoshifumi Kondo: this never happens again

The emotional message of the painting is born from an amazing metamorphosis — the bird euphoria of vegetating grain, and this is what is sung in the song Shizuku:

— Intending to live on his own,

I flew out of my hometown.

And loneliness is locked under my heart,

I managed to save myself…

47-year-old director Yoshifumi Kondo died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm three years after the premiere, and in 2002, “Whisper of the Heart” received a spin-off, “The Return of the Cat” by Hiroyuki Morita.