The Boy and the Heron (2023)
The story of The Boy and the Heron follows Mahito, a 12-year-old boy struggling to cope with the loss of his mother during World…
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Hayao Miyazaki’s the Boy and the Heron | Reviews
The story follows Mahito, a 12-year-old boy struggling to cope with the loss of his mother during World War II
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) – Script
Based on the Japanese Folktale "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter". A bamboo cutter named Sanuki no Miyatsuko discovers a miniature girl inside a…
The Secrets of Howl’s Moving Castle
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…
When Marnie Was There (2014): House of the Spirits – By Nick Bradshaw
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…
When Marnie Was There (2014) – Review by Kate Stables
Despite the absence of the kind of imaginative spectacle or battle sequences that galvanised Spirited Away (2001) and Princess Mononoke (1997), When Marnie Was…