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REVIEW: The Boy and the Heron (2023)

virginiakublawi | Dec 11, 2023 | 0

I wish I could say I’ve followed Studio Ghibli for decades. But unlike Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks, I was unfamiliar with the Japanese studio until I was a young adult. Over the last decade or so, I’ve watched all of their movies at least once and some several times. But The Boy and t...

Hayao Miyazaki’s Next Film Revealed

virginiakublawi | Dec 13, 2022 | 0

Studio Ghibli has slated a new movie, How Do You Live, for July 14th, 2023, in Japanese cinemas. This would be exciting news in and of itself, but animation legend Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement (again) for the venture. At this time, the title is all that’s known about the movie, ...

REVIEW: The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

virginiakublawi | Aug 25, 2021 | 0

Studio Ghibli released a second movie in 2013, this time directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s longtime associate and the studio’s co-founder, Isao Takahata. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya is based on “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” an ancient Japanese fairy tale about a girl found in a bamboo stal...

REVIEW: The Wind Rises (2013)

virginiakublawi | Aug 9, 2021 | 0

The Wind Rises is in the later batch of Studio Ghibli movies I never saw for one reason or another. I was always curious about this one because it’s actually based on a true story, that being the life of Jiro Horikoshi, engineer of the Mitsubishi A6M “Zero” fighter. The Wind Rises ...

REVIEW: From Up On Poppy Hill (2011)

virginiakublawi | Aug 2, 2021 | 0

From Up On Poppy Hill was Gorō Miyazaki’s second attempt at directing a film for the studio his father co-founded. I’ve seen them all out of order, first watching Earwig and the Witch when it was released on HBO Max. I wasn’t impressed with that film and was left perplexed by the ...

REVIEW: Ponyo (2008)

virginiakublawi | Jun 24, 2021 | 2

For one reason or another, the Studio Ghibli movies from 2008 onwards tend to be ones I never saw (The Wind Rises, From Up on Poppy Hill) or that I saw once and didn’t like at all. The latter category pertains to Ponyo (2008), Hayao Miyazaki’s loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid by Hans Chris...