Traditionally, though, middle schoolers are supporting players in movies, if they exist at all. Whisper of the Heart, a 1995 adaptation of the Aoi Hiiragi manga Mimi o Sumaseba, dares to subvert ...

Shizuku Tsukishima is a 3rd grade middle school student. She likes reading books. Shizuku meets Seiji Amasawa who is in the same grade and school that Shizuku attends. At first, she does not like ...

A live-action feature film adaptation of “Whisper of the Heart,” based on a coming-of-age romantic manga by Aoi Hiiragi, will premiere on Sept. 18. The manga was published in the monthly Ribon ...

A girl returns to her native village in Tibet, where a team of doctors treats the condition she has had since birth. She recovers in her grandfather's house and makes a new, special friend there.