"On Your Mark" is a six minute and forty second music promotion film for the Japanese rock duo, Chage and Aska (they sort of look like the two policemen in the film). Miyazaki wrote the original story and screenplay, as well as directing it. The film was released in theatres with "Mimi wo Sumaseba" (Whisper of the Heart) in 1995, and was also screened at Chage and Aska’s concerts.

On Your Mark

On your mark…

Oh! Kono te wo
Hanaseba
Otosae tatenai
Ochite yuku coin wa
nidoto kaeranai

Kimi to boku
narande
Yoake o oinuite mitai
Jitensha

On Your Mark! Itsumo
Hashiridaseba
Haari no kaze ni yarareta
On Your Mark! Bokura ga
Soredemo yamenai no wa
Yume no shamen ni agete
(Itsuko was…)
Yuke sou na ki ga suru kara
On Your Mark…

Soshite bokura wa
Kokoro no
Chiisana akichide
Tagai ni furi otoshita
Kotoba no yuudachi

Oh! Kotae wo dasanai
Oh! Sore ga kotae no youna
Hari no kieta tokei no
Moji wo yomu youna
Kimi to boku
Subete womitomete shimau ni wa mada
Wakasugiru

On Your Mark! Itsumo
Hashiridaseba
Hayari no kaze ni yarareta
On Your Mark! Bokura ga
Kore wo naku senai no wa
Yume no shinzou omegakete
Bokura to yobiau tame

Soshite bokura wa
On Your Mark! Itsumo
Hashiridaseba
Hayari no kaze ni yarareta
On Your Mark! Bokura ga
Sore de mo yamenai no wa
Yume no shamen ni agete
Yukesouna ki ga suru kara
(Soshite bokura wa…)

On Your Mark! Itsumo
Hashiridaseba
Hayari no kaze ni yarareta
On Your Mark! Bokura ga
Kore wo nakusenai no wa
Yume no shinzou o megakete
Bokura to yobiau tame

On Your mark!
Get set…Go!
Soshite bokura wa

On your mark…

Oh! This hand of yours
If I let it go
It wouldn’t make a sound.
The falling coin just won’t
ever come back to me.

You and me,
Side by side,
Pursued the dawn
on our bicycles.

On Your Mark! Everytime,
I start to run away,
I always get lost against the current winds.
On Your Mark! The reason why
We never gave up
Was to rise on the slope of dreams
(Someday…)
and thought that we could make it there.
On your mark…

And both of us were
In each other’s
Little space in the heart.
We both trained each other with
A light shower of words.

Oh! Not answering at all
Oh! Might, in fact, just be the answer.
It’s just like reading the symbols
Of a clock with no hands at all.
You and me,
To finally admit everything,
We’re still too young.

On Your Mark! Everytime
I start to run away,
I always get lost against the current winds.
On Your Mark! The reason
We never lost this was
To aim straight for your dream and
Tell you that we are truly one

And both of us were…
On Your Mark! Everytime
I tried to run away,
I always get lost against the current winds.
On Your Mark! The reason why
We never gave up
Was to rise on the slope of dreams
And thought that we could make it there
(and both of us were…)

On Your Mark! Everytime
I tried to run away
I always get lost against the current winds
On Your Mark! The reason
We never lost this was
To aim straight for your dream and
Tell you that we are truly one.