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This September, we reported on the announcement that Hayao Miyazaki – famed director of Princess Mononoke , Spirited Away and The Wind Rises – would be stepping down from the director’s chair. We also expressed some skepticism that the notoriously hardworking master would be able …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki is leaving the world of film animation. That’s according to Studio Ghibli President Koji Hoshino, who announced this past Sunday at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival in Italy that the world-famous anime director will “retire from the production of feature-length …Read more »
In the new issue of Otaku USA , one of our features by Daryl Surat dives into the latest anime movie from Studio Ghibli, From Up on Poppy Hill . Though the film is directed by Goro Miyazaki—son of beloved Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki ( …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki, legendary director of anime film classics like Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind , Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away , and co-founder of groundbreaking animation house Studio Ghibli, is getting old. He’s 72 this year. No spring chicken. And Studio Ghibli has …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of films such as Spirited Away , Ponyo and Princess Mononoke was recently awarded a Person of Cultural Merit honor by the Japanese government. The honor is awarded annually to 15 individuals who have made a significant …Read more »
For the last ten years, Studio Ghibli (who really need no introduction, but just in case: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro ) have been holding exhibitions at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art. This year, the studio invited famed anime director Hideaki Anno ( …Read more »
Ocean Waves ( Umi ga Kikoeru , aka I Can Hear the Ocean ) is a made-for-TV animated movie from Studio Ghibli that was first shown on TV in Japan on May 5, 1993. It’s long been considered the “lost” Studio Ghibli film because it …Read more »
At a press conference for Kadokawa Pictures' 2011-2012 lineup, Kadokawa Shoten President Shinichiro Inoue made an announcement regarding a new film that brings together a heavy-hitting team of anime creators. The film, Momo e no Tegami ( A Letter to Momo ), is the joint …Read more »
Anime After Dark may be launching in Boston on October 18th, but it isn't stopping there this year. Rather, the festival continues its run on Thanksgiving weekend at Monterey, CA's Golden State Theatre. These new dates, November 28-30 to be specific, will also feature the …Read more »
Longtime collaborators actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese, who most recently teamed up for Killers of the Flower Moon, sat down for a chat about their favorite movies for the site Letterboxd—and some Ghibli films came up during the chat. DiCaprio mentions that since …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 »
It’s been a full 10 years since director Makoto Shinkai released The Garden of Words anime film, preceding smash hits like Your Name., Weathering With You and Suzume. Now, with the anniversary on the minds of fans, a stage play adaptation is on the way …Read more »
The MAPPA Stage 2023 event took place yesterday, and it gave us some teaser info on the upcoming anime movie The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black (Tsurubami-Iro no Nagiko-tachi in Japanese) that’s directed by Black Lagoon and In This Corner of …Read more »
Studio Ghibli comes out with a lot of merchandise for its fans, and with Ghibli Park now open, you know they’ll have to come up with more goodies so they can sell unique items at their shops. The official Twitter account for Ghibli Park shared …Read more »
Ghibli Park has been open since late last year, but there is still more fun to come. The Aichi Prefectural Government, the government in the prefecture that holds the park, has revealed some of what we can expect at the upcoming Mononoke Village and Valley …Read more »
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