Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron | Reviews
27/12/2023
The story follows Mahito, a 12-year-old boy struggling to cope with the loss of his mother during World War II
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THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (2013) – SCRIPT
04/05/2020
Based on the Japanese Folktale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter”. A bamboo cutter named Sanuki no Miyatsuko discovers a miniature girl inside a glowing bamboo shoot. Believing her to be a divine presence, he and his wife decide to raise her as their own, calling her “Princess”.
THE SECRETS OF HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE – by Bob Miller
04/02/2018
The Witch of the Waste transforms Sophie Hatter from a teen into a 90-year-old woman. To break the spell, Sophie must journey in search of Howl’s Moving Castle.
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (2014): HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS – By Nick Bradshaw
04/02/2018
Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There transposes a classic of English children’s literature to modern-day Japan to tell the tale of an orphan discovering the dark secrets of her past, in what might well be the last in-house feature from the great animation house Studio Ghibli
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (2014) – Review by Kate Stables
04/02/2018
Despite the absence of the kind of imaginative spectacle or battle sequences that galvanised Spirited Away (2001) and Princess Mononoke (1997), When Marnie Was There is expertly atmospheric. Its action is all contained within its emotional ebb and flow, as fierce as the tides that lap at Marsh House.