Featured Spotlight: Fathom Events Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-winning masterpiece Spirited Away was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan and helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers. Chihiro thinks she is on another boring …Read more »
Japanese twitter user @33kitta recently posted some screencaps from 2003 film Mei and the Kittenbus, commenting about how hardly anyone seems to have heard of it. He followed up with a poll, to which 88% of 102,000 respondents responded they had no clue of its existence. …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Fathom Events From Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is considered by many to be his masterwork — and there are few films, animated or otherwise, of such sweeping scope and grandeur. Set in a devastated future …Read more »
Before Spirited Away , before Princess Mononoke , before Ponyo , Hayao Miyazaki co-wrote and directed the 1979 film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro . Decades later, the film is still an anime classic, and next month it will be playing in special theaters …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: From the legendary Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki comes a rollicking adventure about a young girl with a mysterious crystal pendant who falls out of the sky and into the arms and life of young Pazu. Together they search for a floating …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved classic, My Neighbor Totoro , is for a special two-day event as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2017! Discover a world of magic and wonder when sisters Satsuke and Mei befriend a family of Totoros, gigantic but cuddly forest spirits …Read more »
If you want to get a peek behind-the-scenes at the life and work of Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, now’s your chance. NHK World TV is set to re-air an English-subtitled version of last year’s documentary "Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki" this June. The documentary, which …Read more »
At this weekend’s Niconico Chokaigi convention in Chiba, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki dropped a couple of Hayao Miyazaki knowledge bombs: one good, the other not so much. First, the good news: Miyazaki’s CG short, "Boro the Caterpillar," which was announced back in 2015, will …Read more »
Remember when Hayao Miyazaki said he was finally retiring from directing feature-length animated films? No, not that time, but the other time. No, the other one, back in 2013! He said he was done "for real," but it looks like he has at least one …Read more »
Featured Spotlight: In honor of director Hayao Miyazaki's birthday and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of his beloved classics, Fathom Events and GKIDS are excited to bring the epic animated fantasy film, back to cinemas nationwide on Thursday, January 5 (English Subtitles) and …Read more »
Revered anime director Hayao Miyazaki has never minced words when it comes to technology, and he didn't hold back in recent comments on artificial intelligence. The topic came up during a special documentary program that aired on Japan's national public broadcasting station. "Owaranai Hito (Neverending …Read more »
After a 15th anniversary run of Spirited Away that resulted in encore screenings, it's now time for Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke to get the spotlight. The beloved anime film is celebrating its 20th anniversary next year, and GKIDs is wasting no time …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of Princess Mononoke , Spirited Away and The Wind Rises , wants to make another full-length feature film, it was revealed Sunday. Miyazaki stated his desire to make the film on a TV special documenting his work …Read more »
Studio Ghibli: the legendary studio is known for creating some of the best and most financially successful anime films of all time, but it’s also had its share of failures. Ever wondered how much Studio Ghibli’s movies cost to make, and how much the studio …Read more »
In the anime pantheon, not many people can reach the level of Hayao Miyazaki. Castle in the Sky is one of his iconic classics, and while it hasn’t reached the degree of recognition in the west as his titles Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke , …Read more »
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