After retiring from feature-length films and closing Studio Ghibli this past November, Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki is making a CG animated short film for the Ghibli Museum in Japan. According to the Anime News Network, his son, Goro Miyazaki, made the announcement at a talk show event in June. This will be the first …
Don’t you even dare call it a “kid’s movie.” Animation has been around for a while now, starting with silent experiments such as Gertie the Dinosaur, followed by the more traditional Disney fare such as Snow White or Cinderella, and becoming more modern with another round of Disney hits like The Lion King or Beauty …
Back in August we speculated on whether Studio Ghibli, the legendary animation studio behind films like Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro, might be closing its doors due to financial difficulties. Now in an interview with the LA Times, the studio’s most vaulted director Hayao Miyazaki has announced that Ghibli is …
In a month full of horror and malevolent covens and blood-curdling scares, I offer now the soothing respite of Hayao Miyazaki’s beautiful and serene Kiki’s Delivery Service. Possibly Miyazaki’s most under-appreciated film, it is surely his most modest, which I mean as a compliment. It is the epitome of Miyazaki’s quiet filmmaking, letting the soft emotion and warm aesthetics of the animation do most of the talking. The fact that Kiki is a witch is rather beside the point, because this is a coming-of-age story for a young girl committed to helping others but forgetting about herself.
Could the magic that has come from films like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies be coming to an end? Thompson on Hollywood is reporting that Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli may be closing its doors because the cost of making hand-drawn animated films with the attention to detail they include might …
Studio Ghibli may easily be called the Disney of Japan. An animation film studio founded in 1985 by Isao Takahta and Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli has consistently produced brilliant hand-drawn animated films, and its characters have become ubiquitous in Japanese culture. Over the last 25 years, the production studio has released 17 feature films, eight …
Princess Mononoke Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Written by Hayao Miyazaki Starring Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Billy Bob Thornton, Jada Pinkett Smith We all have pop-culture blind spots, and one of mine has been, for a long time, the films of Studio Ghibli. For some of you, the very notion that I haven’t seen every Studio …
It’s a moment of truth on Mousterpiece Cinema this week, as Josh and Mike are joined by special guest Simon Howell from The Televerse and Sound on Sight’s flagship podcast. The trio team up to tackle the 1997 Studio Ghibli release Princess Mononoke. Along with Spirited Away, it’s one of writer-director Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved …
Over the four-day Presidents’ Day weekend in the United States, Walt Disney Pictures unveiled the latest release from the beloved Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli, 2012’s The Secret World of Arrietty. Now that a week has past, Josh and Michael can delve deep into this secret world, adapted from the well-known British kids’ novel The …
The Secret World of Arrietty Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi Written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa Starring Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett I’ve become an old man in my young age. I imagine I’m not the only one, of course; you, dear reader, may feel like you’ve become twice as crotchety as your friends …
The Secret World of Arrietty Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi (Gary Rydstrom for the U.S. version) Wirriten by Hayao Miyazaki Japan, 2010 North American cinema goers who enjoy solid animation feature films are privileged with a number of eclectic films produced by numerous studios. One can go see the latest animated picture from Disney, Pixar, or …
The Borrower Arrietty Produced by Studio Ghibli Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi Most Western cinema-goers became aware of the mighty Ghibli studio back in 2001 when their twelfth movie, Spirited Away, won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Perhaps they took the time to then investigate some of their wondrous back catalogue, or at the very …
What Hollywood Has Left to Learn from Studio Ghibli? Everything: 5 Ghibli Films Hollywood Filmmakers Need to Watch Hayao Miyazaki can’t quit. Meaning that in both the ways it can be taken. First off, the man has seriously tried, having basically given a KISS-level amount of farewell tours, starting all the way back in 1997 …