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The 2004 film by Hayao Miyazaki has been invoked for fans with this capsule collection coming out of the luxury house formed back in 1846 in Spain and is now spearheaded by Jonathan Anderson, the creative director, since 2013. Howl's Moving Castle Source: Youtube/ GKIDS Films A Fabric Journey with Loewe x Howl's Moving Castle The plot of  Howl's Moving[...]

An incredibly memorable moment from the beginning of Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece Kiki's Delivery Service, this hand-painted original production cel can be seen at the 7:11 mark of the film, as seen on HBO Max. Kiki's Delivery Service is a definitive Studio Ghibli classic, with powerful themes of overcoming self-doubt during the rocky transition into adulthood and self-actualization[...]

This cel is currently available at Heritage Auctions' website. According to the auction listing for this item on Heritage Auctions' website: "Hey!" Little Mei chases Chibi-Totoro and Chū Totoro through the bushy overgrowth of their forest home in this wonderful hand-painted original production cel from the Hayao Miyazaki-directed animated masterwork My Neighbor Totoro. Seen at the 31:00 mark of the[...]

When it comes to stalwarts of animation, one of the pioneering figures is Hayao Miyazaki His anime films in Studio Ghibli are still largely hand-drawn The studio has a reputation for taking its time to release projects When they do, most become cinematic masterpieces Fiercely protective of his work, Miyazaki had a love-hate relationship in[...]

Welcome back to our discussion of the most underrated films of the 2010s. This time, we're taking on animated films. A couple of caveats: while normally,

Animation director and manga artist Hayao Miyazaki will be honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association at their annual awards dinner on January 12th 2019. Editorial credit: Denis Makarenko / Shutterstock.com LAFCA president Claudia Puig made the announcement today. "We are thrilled to be presenting our Career Achievement award to Hayao Miyazaki,[...]

It was back in 2013 that visionary anime director Hayao Miyazaki (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, Totoro) announced he would be retiring from feature film development Shortly thereafter in 2014, Studio Ghibli followed suit and said it would take a "brief pause" after Miyazaki's retirement Now it seems that the lights have come[...]

When legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki retired from directing in 2013 with his so-called final feature film, The Wind Rises, he must have been using the same definition of the word that legendary wrestler Ric Flair did during his many retirements According to Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki (via a report on Anime News Network), Miyazaki is[...]

As stated in the program's producer, "the production department of anime will be dismantled," which coincides with the data that we gave in our previous post on this decision had been taken from spring after the poor reception at the box office of Kaguya-hime no Monogatari. In the interview, Suzuki has also admitted that it was[...]

American releases of Hayao Miyazaki's films usually feature an all-star English-language cast, and his latest and final film is no different Joseph Gordon-Levitt, aka the new Sandman, will be taking the lead role in The Wind Rises, with a cast rounded out by Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Glee star Darren Criss, and oh, let's throw[...]

Today's Exhibit: Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata's 1971 adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's iconic children's books featuring precocious pigtailed heroine Pippi Longstocking. In the end, the author decided not to give the filmmakers the rights to make her stories into an animated film, but now we have an idea of what the film may have looked like[...]

In an earlier post Brendon pondered how Western audiences might perceive Hayao Miyazaki's latest and likely final film, The Wind Rises, which is in large part a biopic of aeronautic engineer Jiro Horikoshi Well, the first trailer cut especially for the film's forthcoming US release answers how the studio believes it will be perceived. Dialogue-free and[...]