Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli has announced (via GhibliWorld) their next animated film, to be titled Karigurashi no Arrietty aka Arrietty Borrows Everything in English, which is an adaptation of Mary Norton's fantasy classic "The Borrowers." The new feature film will be directed by studio animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi under the supervision of Ghibli maestro Hayao Miyazaki. The Toho Company is planning on bringing the film to theaters next...  

Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has announced its next animated film, an adaptation of Mary Norton’s 1952 classic kid’s book, The Borrowers. Miyazaki-san will produce, but the actual direction will fall to one of his key animators Hiromasa Yonebayashi. The movie will be titled Karigurashi no Arrietty (aka Arrietty Borrows Everything). Toho will release the [...]  

The nominations are in for this year's Golden Globe awards but Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo was nowhere to be seen in the Best Animated Feature Film category, nor was any other anime feature. Instead, nominees for this prestigious award include Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog and Up. Co-produced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globe awards are perhaps one of the most...  

Studio Ghibli has announced it will next adapt May Norton's fantasy classic "The Borrowers," says Variety . Titled Karigurashi no Arrietty ("Arrietty Borrows Everything"), the animated film is being directed by studio animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi under the supervision of Ghibli maestro Hayao Miyazaki. The release is scheduled for summer 2010 with Toho distributing. Published in 1952, "The Borrowers" centers on a family of little people...  

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Studio Ghibli will announced their next project on December 16th, but some of you may not know why that’s a big deal.  For those who don’t know, Ghibli is the animation studio founded by Hayao Miyazaki and behind such classics as My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies (the saddest movie ever made), and Spirited [...]  

News: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment have announced the US DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Ponyo on 2nd March 2010. The latest film from director Hayao Miyazaki is inspired by the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale “The Little Mermaid” and also i...  

The great ocean deep proves a natural canvas for Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away), whose latest feature riffs on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale of The Little Mermaid, albeit with the distinctly Miyazaki-an twist that the mermaid princess is an ...  

Somebody has made the dreamy floating wonderworld from the Oscar-nominated Hayao Miyazaki film Howl's Moving Castle out of Lego. The details are quite impressive, and blogging about this is making me want to watch the movie again. Imagine's Brickzone's Flickr via Japanator...  

Saw Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo recently before it left movie theaters late this summer. Miyazaki is the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker who created Spirited Away, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2003.Ponyo is not the director's best work, but it is an interesting diversion.The main problem is the (feebleness of the) plot and (lack of) character development. It's mildly amusing to identify the voices of the famous celebrities who add...  

The animated feature inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' is due out on Blu-ray next March. Disney/Buena Vista is working on Hayao Miyazaki's 'Ponyo' for a Blu-ray release on March...  

I have James Gurney to thank for bringing this one to my attention. The following clip features edited (and subtitled) excerpts of a joint interview with Moebius and Hayao Miyazaki in Paris on the occasion of a joint art exhibit. Both men say all sorts of interesting things, but Gurney is quite right that Miyazaki has the bits that stick with you.Here are two quotes from Miyazaki in particular that resonate with me very much."The 21st Century...  

I'm not much of an anime fan. Actually, I actively dislike the bulk of the anime I've seen. Movies by Hayao Miyazaki get my attention (there's an argument to be made that, thanks to different sensibilities when building story and character, Miyazaki's movies are not anime at all) and so do features by Satoshi Kon. His films are always interesting, even when they don't work, and since the combo of Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers I've...  

In a world where anything is possible, a 5-year-old boy's act of kindness enables a goldfish to transform into a young gir, an act that has unforeseen consequences in this magical tale from master animator Hayao Miyazaki