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Directed by Academy Award®-nominated Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies has been universally hailed as an artistic and emotional tour de force. Now it’s coming to theaters in its first nationwide release for a limited three-night event on August 12, 13, and 15, …Read more »
Isao Takahata: co-founder of venerated animation studio Ghibli, director of anime classics like Grave of the Fireflies and Only Yesterday , and… DJ? That’s right: 80-year-old Takahata will man the decks at Fukushima music festival Kazetorock Imony World, it was announced yesterday. Takahata will also …Read more »
June 15, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of Studio Ghibli. Founded in 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, the studio has created some of Japan and the world’s best-loved animation with films like My Neighbor Totoro , Grave of …Read more »
While Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata’s film Princess Kaguya did not win the Academy Award for best animated feature (boo), the good news is Takahata “has his mind set” on his next work according to an interview with AP. Takahata’s next film will be “a …Read more »
Originally released in Japanese theaters last November, Studio Ghibli's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya ( reviewed here ) is the latest film from Grave of the Fireflies director Isao Takahata. It's now set to open in North America on October 17, perfectly timed for the …Read more »
Studio Ghibli, the anime creators even non-anime fans know and love, are the subject of a new exhibition in Hong Kong. Spanning the long history of the studio behind Spirited Away and Grave of the Fireflies and its founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, the …Read more »
Whether you saw it coming or not, the news of Central Park Media filing for Chapter 7 was rough. After all, they've been around for so long that I hardly noticed they had gone such a long period without releasing anything. Maybe that was denial, …Read more »
The second annual Niigata International Animation Festival will screen several features by late Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata, it was announced this weekend. Takahata, who was born in 1935, had a long and storied directorial career that began in the 1960s and continued until his …Read more »
Nizo Yamamoto, an acclaimed art director known for his work on the films of Studio Ghibli and others, has died at the age of 70. The cause was stomach cancer. Yamamoto was born in Goto, Nagasaki (where a museum dedicated to Yamamoto can now be …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki’s early work Shuna’s Journey finally received an English release, thanks to graphic novel publisher First Second Books. Alex Dudok de Wit, who has written a book about Grave of the Fireflies published by the British Film Institute, worked as the translator. He spoke …Read more »
Studio Ghibli films are beloved around the world, but they’re especially treasured in their home country of Japan. Line is a popular messaging app in Japan, and recently Line Research posed a question for a survey: “Which Ghibli anime do you like?” The survey received …Read more »
When My Neighbor Totoro recently played on Japanese TV’s Kinyo Roadshow slot, information on the movie was also released on Twitter. One of the bits of trivia answered is why there’s a single girl hanging out with Totoro in the movie poster, but the movie …Read more »
One of the best parts of simulcasting is, without a doubt, real-time anime theories. We can chat between episodes about who’s gonna marry whom, who’s gonna destroy the world, and who’s gonna be the next next next Hokage. Fans come up with wild, exciting ideas. Some …Read more »
You’ve probably seen at least one anime inspired by a real-life event or person. Grave of the Fireflies, The Wind Rises… technically parts of Fate/Grand Order. Those are the big, on-the-nose titles. But what about lesser known series? Or series whose inspo comes in slightly at an …Read more »
We just got done earlier this month talking about how often variations of the “sad anime” topic come up in polls, and it’s already come up again. Between May 28th and June 9th the mobile keyboard app Simeji surveyed Japanese 10-19 year olds asking which …Read more »
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