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Posters For The Two New Ghibli Films For 2013

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

World War 2 fighter planes and a miniature princess found growing inside a stalk of bamboo.

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Video: A Live Action Nausicaä Spin-Off From Studio Ghibli And Evangelion’s Hideaki Anno

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Shunji Higuchi, a storyboard artist on Evangelion, has directed a live action film featuring the God Warriors from Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki‘s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. It’s going to be screening at The Museum of Contemporary …

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Miyazaki’s Next Film “Realistic” And Not A Relaxing Watch

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki has decided his next film won’t be “the sort of work that everyone in the audience can relax and watch.” Quotes from Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki were published this weekend on the Japanese site Hollywood Channel, …

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Isao Takahata Still At Work On New Ghibli Film

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Both of the wise old men of Ghibli are working up new projects. We’ve already talked about Hayao Miyazaki‘s next picture, which is said to be an “autobiography,” and now Isao Takahati has confirmed that his next film should be …

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Hayao Miyazaki Working On Autobiographical Film, Full Trailer For Next Ghibli Picture, Up On Poppy Hill

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Hayao Miyazaki, seemingly the most beloved of all anime directors, has been working on his next feature film for some time. This week, the first shreds of information were formally announced by Toshio Suzuki, one of the producers at Studio …

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First Trailer For New Ghibli Movie, Kokuriku-Zaka Kara

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

This year’s Japanese summer release from Studio Ghibli will be Kokuriku-Zaka Kara, an adaptation of the 1980s manga about a teenage love triangle in the year before the Tokyo Olympics. This is in the mode of some of the less …

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Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty UK Poster Premiere, Voice Cast News

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Here’s the first UK poster for the next Studio Ghibli picture, Arrietty. It has been adapted from Mary Norton‘s The Borrowers by Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. As you’d expect, it looks wonderful. And it will sound …

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Blu-Ray Review: Laputa: Castle In The Sky

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

The Studio Ghibli we know and love was born pretty much fully formed with Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky. We don’t only get a checklist of the studio’s most prevalent tropes, from feisty young protagonists to breathtaking flying …

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You Must Hear This – Studio Ghibli Theme Tunes Get Extreme Metal Cover Versions

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Who doesn’t love the theme tunes to Studio Ghibli films? Just this weekend, Ben Mortimer and I were nerding off with Helen from Optimum Releasing (who we’d only met ten or fifteen seconds before) about which were the best.* Now, …

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