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Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us

The great Japanese animator, whose 1988 masterpiece My Neighbour Totoro is back in cinemas, embraces the universe yet never shies away from life’s grittier elements

The Guardian - UK

My Neighbour Totoro review – Miyazaki’s supernatural masterpiece still enchants

Studio Ghibli’s inspirationally lovely film about a girl’s encounter with a gentle creature only becomes more beguiling with repeated viewings

The Guardian - UK

Spirited Away review – Studio Ghibli gem becomes a theatrical feast

Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece is brought to life with imaginative puppetry, wondrous music and moments of delicate poetry

The Guardian - UK

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Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

Hayao Miyazaki’s animations praised by Phelim McDermott as new production in West End announced

The Guardian - UK

Hayao Miyazaki invites moviegoers to dream with him one last time

The loudest applause on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival was for Totoro

The Independent UK

'Totoro' play boosts East Asian visibility on British stage

LONDON: Actors of East and Southeast Asian heritage have long remained in the shadows of British performing arts, competing for stereotypical or often token roles with few opportunities to grab the limelight.

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…

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Totoro time: Japan's Ghibli theme park opens to visitors

Tokyo (AFP) - 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.

AFP

The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican review: it’s easier to admire this Studio Ghibli adaptation than love it

This show transposes the off-key weirdness of the original, but the story could use more jeopardy, darkness and more of the monsters

Evening Standard

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

Evening Standard

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.

Bangkok Post

'Spirited Away': Ghibli theme park prepares for visitors

Nagakute (Japan) (AFP) - 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.

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A Sneak Peek Of The Adorable Studio Ghibli Theme Park Is Here BRB, Booking Flights To Japan

Five years after it was first announced, the Studio Ghibli theme park finally has an open date and our eyeballs have also been blessed with a sneak peek of the precious place. I feel like this is the delightful, wholesome news the world deserves after a history-changing global pandemic —…

The Guardian - UK

Muppet power! RSC uses puppet legends for My Neighbour Totoro extravaganza

The RSC’s version of the Japanese classic has smashed box office records – before the curtain’s even gone up. We meet the Jim Henson puppeteers bringing Studio Ghibli’s beloved fluffy monsters to life

AFP

Totoro's home: Japan crowdfund for forest that inspired film

Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese city is launching a crowdfunding campaign to help preserve a special spot of woodland: the forest that inspired the animator of beloved movie "My Neighbour Totoro".

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.

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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.

Bangkok Post

Uniqlo, Studio Ghibli team up at Central exhibition

When you need a friend, Totoro is waiting! The sometimes scary yet loveable Totoro as well as the Cat Bus are in Bangkok for an exhibition staged by Studio Ghibli in collaboration with Uniqlo Thailand at CentralWorld.

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