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Suzume review: "The future of anime is in safe hands"

"This world is not for the ordinary!" says an elderly character in Makoto Shinkai’s latest anime. And ‘ordinary’ is the last word you would apply to a rich and spectacular fantasy that combines the Your Name director’s trademark photorealism with the sort of whimsical shape-shifting and elaborate alternate-world building that…

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Makoto Shinkai's latest anime Suzume is a romantic and funny romp that speaks to the power of memory

Inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, director Makoto Shinkai crafts a story where the characters draw on their memories to avert disaster.

ABC News

The anime hit 'Suzume' and Shinkai's cinema of cataclysm

Makoto Shinkai was never the same filmmaker after the 2011 earthquake stuck Japan

The Independent UK

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I Watched Every Hayao Miyazaki Movie In Succession And I Can't Stop Crying

Hayao Miyazaki has created some masterpieces of cinema - and I decided to watch all his movies in a row. Let's talk about it.

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Netflix Japan blames 'labor shortage' for using A.I. art in its anime

Artists complain that image-generating A.I. steals their work without consent, while limiting their opportunities to get paying work.

Fortune

The 19 movies we’re most excited for in 2023

There’s nothing quite like the return of a beloved auteur to get the cinephile’s juices flowing. Or the next installment in one of the century’s biggest franchises. Or paparazzi photos of Barbie and Ken. Or an overprotective doll. Which means 2023’s cup overfloweth for moviegoers of every stripe — the…

Los Angeles Times

The best Max family movies: 18 great films to stream in October 2024

These are the best Max family movies to watch, from the Harry Potter films to Superman: The Movie.

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'How Do You Live' release date, trailer, and plot for the Hayao Miyazaki movie

Pass the tissues: Hayao Miyazaki is back to tug at our heartstrings.

Inverse

No fun rides but plenty of spirit: Studio Ghibli offers anime fans a new walk in the park

Ghibli Park, which opened this week, offers an immersive glimpse into the worlds created by the likes of Hayao Miyazaki, but don’t expect any rollercoaster rides

The Guardian - AU

Japan's long-awaited Ghibli Park is now open

NAGOYA: A theme park featuring the beloved characters of Studio Ghibli and scenes from its hit animation films such as My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away opened in central Japan yesterday.

Bangkok Post

Totoro Time: Japan's Ghibli Theme Park Opens to Visitors

A huge grinning Totoro and other whimsical exhibits welcomed visitors to Japan's new Ghibli theme park as three of its five sections opened to the public on Tuesday. The attraction in central Japan has been long awaited by fans of Studio Ghibli's beloved animations, from "Howl's Moving Castle" to the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

My Neighbour Totoro review – dazzling staging of the Studio Ghibli classic

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro transfers to the West End: how the RSC turned a cult cartoon into a must-see theatre show

The creative team give the inside story on how they adapted the much-loved Studio Ghibli animation, breaking sales records in the process

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Ghibli theme park prepares for visitors

Beyond the gates, a whimsical world awaits, complete with a fluffy Cat Bus, the toothy grin of Totoro and a life-sized No-Face seated on a train: welcome to Ghibli Park.

Salon

"Spirited Away" delights 20 years later

Despite the fact that many of its elements were alien to American audiences, the film became a sensation

The Conversation

Hayao Miyazaki’s 'Spirited Away' continues to delight fans and inspire animators 20 years after its US premiere

When Hayao Miyazaki’s animated feature “Spirited Away” premiered in the U.S. 20 years ago, most viewers hadn’t seen anything like it.

Inverse

The most epic fantasy movie on HBO Max reveals a real threat to humanity

Princess Mononoke's story mirrors humanity's fraught relationship with nature amid climate change.

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If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors

Some directors come with such huge back catalogues that it can be hard to know where to start. Enter our film critics, who suggest the best routes in to the works of some of our most prolific film-makers

Inverse

Studio Ghibli films have a subversive message hiding in plain sight

The films like "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Nausicaa" hide a pro-environmental message that should resonate with viewers.

Los Angeles Times

How Céline Sciamma made the film every parent and child should see together

From the lauded French auteur behind the unabashedly feminist modern classic “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” Céline Sciamma’s “Petite Maman” is a 72-minute time-travel fable that revels in the casually profound friendship between young Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) and her mother, Marion. In a magical turn of events, Nelly meets…

The Conversation

How Studio Ghibli films can help us rediscover the childlike wonder of our connection with nature

Films with powerful environmentally centred narratives can transform our thinking and connect us with nature in ways that scientific papers cannot. For example, Studio Ghibli, a renowned Japanese film studio co-founded by animator Hayao Miyazaki, creates complex visual stories about human-nature relationships that transcend barriers of culture or age. A…

Bangkok Post

Anime 'My Neighbor Totoro' to be adapted into stage play in Britain

TOKYO: Studio Ghibli's classic animation film "My Neighbor Totoro" will be adapted into a stage play at Britain's prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company from October, Nippon Television Network Corp, one of the collaborators, said on Wednesday.

The Times of India

40-year-old graphic novel by Hayao Miyazaki to be translated into English

Here's some great news for English-speaking fans of Japanese Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. His graphic novel 'Shuna’s Journey', which was published nearly 40 years ago in 1983 in Japan, will now be translated into English! The new book will be published by First Second, an imprint of Macmillan, on November…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Graphic Novel by Miyazaki to Be Issued in the US

A graphic novel by Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki is being released for the first time in the United States, nearly 40 years after it was published in Japan. Miyazaki's “Shuna’s Journey,” originally released in 1983 and the basis for his films “Princess Mononoke” and “Nausicaä of the Valley of the…

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