Seeing the light − at the movies.
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Plenty of movies have explicitly religious themes, but some of the most interesting examples of faith or transcendence on screen are much more subtle.
A scene from Ponyo (2008), Ghibli’s adaptation of The Little Mermaid.
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These stories allow for beautiful explorations of the British countryside, and the female-focused approach that Ghibli have become known for.
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After 2013’s The Wind Rises, Miyazaki spent ten years creating The Boy and the Heron, speculated to be his final film.
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The 82-year-old Japanese director brings over half a century’s worth of animated masterpieces together in this coming-of-age story
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Suzume stands its ground in the large collection of films and literature coming to terms with the memory of Japan’s 2011 triple disaster.
Monsters and spirits –including ‘tsukumogami,’ which are made of everyday objects – in the ‘Hyakki-Yagyō-Emaki’ scroll, painted between the 14th and 16th centuries.
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Shinto and Buddhist ideas about interconnectedness have deeply influenced Japan, shaping centuries-old rituals and stories whose impact continues today.
Critics praised the film for its stunning visuals.
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Despite the fact that many of its elements were alien to American audiences, the film became a sensation.
Studio Ghibli films are replete with artistry depicting different aspects of nature.
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Films like Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro and Nausicaä created by Hayao Miyazaki explore the perils of neglecting nature.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s Mitsukuni defies the skeleton spectre.
conjured up by Princess Takiyasha
(1845–46)
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A new exhibition surveys the haunting Japanese traditions and beliefs that connect the supernatural with the everyday.
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After his death at the age of 82, a look at the deeply affecting impressionistic films of Studio Ghibli’s unsung co-founder .
Neo Tokyo – the setting of the popular anime film ‘Akira’ – is about to explode.
In the wake of the atomic bombs, a number of Japanese animators would question mankind’s relationship with technology.
A still from Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises. The Japanese director has announced that this is his final film.
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It is a strange and transitional time in the history of cinema. As the medium itself shifts irreversibly from celluloid to computation, the last generation of true film-makers is gradually, but inevitably…
Miyazaki has refused to replace hand-drawn animation with CGI.
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Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki has long been considered by critics and fans alike as the epitome of animation, not only in Japan but across the world. With the release of his latest, and possibly…