Hayao Miyazaki further postpones his announced retirement three feature films earlier, and appears to reverse the slippage of his hand-drawn purism into corner-cutting computer animation, reverting to a simpler, less congested style than in Spirited Away and even more Howl’s Moving Castle. His famous sensitivity to nature is immediately on …
Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki lays out a rudimentary quest myth and deliverance myth, on an appropriately epic scale, in a fairy-tale realm of ungodly beasts and beastly gods, of swords and sorcery, of warriors and weasels. (More specifically, a monstrous mad boar with a coat of live nightcrawlers is slain …
Celebrate animation master Hayao Miyazaki with the first-ever nationwide retrospective of his Studio Ghibli works. Features will be shown in both original Japanese and English dubbed versions and will include exclusive selections from the documentary series 10 Years With Hayao Miyazaki.
Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli cartoons Mary Norton’s famous story The Borrowers, with Miyazaki scripting and disciple Hiromasa Yonebayashi directing the animation house style of bucolic realism: lush plants, rain, clouds, cute critters, Victorian décor, hybrid (mainly Caucasian) ethnicity. Tiny, very human squatters below the floorboards fear the big “human beings” …
Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning animated feature film comes to life in a stage adaptation, full of musical numbers and puppets. Adapted and directed by Tony Award-winner John Caird, two unique casts and performances were filmed during the show’s 2022 run at Tokyo’s Imperial Theatre, featuring Kanna Hashimoto and Mone Kamishiraishi …
Cancellation of the retirement of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, whose Princess Mononoke was a worthy valedictory to the traditional hand-drawn method. For this addendum to his career, he has made liberal, corner-cutting use of computer-generated backgrounds; and the clash of styles creates perhaps the most overt conflict in the entire …
Chihiro’s family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba. Put to work in a magical bathhouse for …
Chihiro’s family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba. Put to work in a magical bathhouse for …
Chihiro’s family is moving to a new house, but when they stop on the way to explore an abandoned village, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits ruled over by the sorceress Yubaba. Put to work in a magical bathhouse for …