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Isao Takahata's Only Yesterday used to be the only feature film by Studio Ghibli that remained unreleased in North America. It celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this year with a theatrical run from GKIDS, and now Amazon has its Blu-ray + DVD release scheduled for …Read more »
Thanks to a combination of the efforts of Disney and GKids, the U.S. has received high-quality releases of most of the catalog of legendary studio Studio Ghibli. But there’s one Ghibli gem that’s never been released in the U.S. – until now. GKids has announced …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 »
The last time I talked about Only Yesterday in this magazine, I was lamenting the fact that it was one of only two Studio Ghibli films to have never received an English-language release (the other being Ocean Waves ). Now I’m back in the pages …Read more »
Mai Mai Miracle (or, to literally translate the Japanese title, Mai Mai Shinko and the Millennium-old Magic ) could have been a Studio Ghibli film. Like Isao Takahata’s I Can Hear the Sea and Only Yesterday , Mai is a nostalgic film with a slightly …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 »
There is sad news coming out of Japan as we learn that musician Yukihiro Takahashi has passed away. He died on January 11, at the age of 70, from aspiration pneumonia because of a brain tumor. Among other things, he was the lead vocalist and …Read more »
The live-action mini-series that adapts Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure spinoff manga, Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan, has more episodes on the way. NHK announced three more episodes for the series, which are now set to make their broadcast debut in Japan on NHK General this …Read more »
Studio Ghibli has gradually been releasing HD stills from their long history of gorgeously produced anime films, available to download for free for “common sense” usage. Now that full assortment of images is complete thanks to a final batch, adding up to a whopping 1,178 …Read more »
Looking for something new (new to you, that is) to watch? You could do worse than ticking some films off this list. Straight from the folks at the British Film Institute, it lists the best Japanese film of the year for each year starting in …Read more »
Just when you thought you wouldn’t get to stream any Studio Ghibli films, HBO Max comes through to dash that notion. Thanks to a partnership with GKIDS, HBO Max will be the first US streaming service to host the entire Studio Ghibli film library, with a whopping …Read more »
The Los Angeles Anime Film Festival, which launched last year, is adding a new feature for its second annual event: an awards ceremony for English-language dub actors. The ceremony will take place on the opening night of the festival, September 21, and feature the following …Read more »
Sports manga and anime haven't traditionally been released here in the US very often. In Japan, they tend to make up some of the most popular, enduring titles and several have been extraordinarily influential classics. Baseball in particular is a major sport in Japan, so …Read more »
Studio Ghibli: the legendary anime studio founded by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki after the completion of their film Nausicaa really needs no introduction. Beloved by anime fans and mainstream film lovers alike, Ghibli’s films have become essential viewing in their native Japan …Read more »
When Hayao Miyazaki retired in 2013, he mentioned that while he was done with feature filmmaking, he still had plenty of projects up his sleeve, including potential animated shorts for the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. Miyazaki is making good on that promise, and now …Read more »
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