Tag: Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli theme park to build a life-size Howl’s Moving Castle.
The monster-massive Studio Ghibli theme park which is being designed for construction in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture has just released details for its life-size Howl’s Moving Castle. Now, the good news is that you’re getting this beast, the slightly less good news is that they’re building the HMC in the three-storey-tall ‘scout mode’, which is when […]
Fifteen Years at Studio Ghibli: Steve Alpert interviewed (video).
Steve Alpert is the author of a new book titled Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli, and here he is in an interview about his career at Japan’s greatest anime movie studio. His business memoir describes what it was like to work for Japan’s premiere animation studio, Studio Ghibli, […]
Studio Ghibli release splendid anime backgrounds for Zoom conferencing (news).
Are you still using fake billion-dollar apartment pictures as your Zoom background to make work colleagues jealous? That’s so last week, my friend. For now, you can download any one of a number of fab Studio Ghibli backgrounds designed for teleconferencing at home. Yes, you too can pretend you are in such classics as Howl’s […]
Ten Years with Hayao Miyazaki (interview/documentary – part one).
A behind-the-scenes examination of the genius of Japan’s best known anime film director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki allowed one lucky documentary filmmaker to shadow him at work, as he dreamed up characters and plot lines for what would become his 2008 flick, “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.” In this […]
Ronja, The Robber’s Daughter (Studio Ghibli trailer).
Here’s the new trailer for the anime version of Ronia the Robber’s Daughter (Swedish: Ronja Rövardotter), the 1981 children’s fantasy book by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, as reimagined by Studio Ghibli’s Gorō Miyazaki.
When Marnie Was There (trailer), latest Studio Ghibli anime.
Here’s the first trailer for the new anime movie, When Marnie Was There, from the cream of the crop of the Japanese studios . . . Studio Ghibli. A tale of love, loneliness, and friendship, When Marnie Was There is the story of an emotionally distant adolescent girl, who upon being sent to live with relatives […]
Anime director Isao Takahata talks about founding Studio Ghibli and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya.
Acclaimed director Isao Takahata’s first film in fourteen years is the Academy Award nominated The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. In 1985, Takahata was one of the founding fathers of animation hothouse Studio Ghibli along with fellow director Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki. Miyazaki, 74, announced his retirement in 2013 and Takahata, who will be […]
