Hayao Miyazaki is one of the great cinema artists of recent decades. Through the famed Studio Ghibli he has helped craft an animation style as evocative, moving and meaningful as any Disney classic or live action film for that matter. After claiming to have retired in 2013 he has returned with the long awaited The Boy And The Heron. The
Read moreJapanese drama Drive My Car, which is based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, has been one of the most lauded films of the year. Nominated for both the Best Picture and Best International Feature Oscars and Best Director for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, it marks the continued ascent and recognition of films from outside Hollywood and the west, particularly from
Read moreLike last year’s The Other Son, Japanese film Like Father Like Son explores the heartbreaking situation in which two sets of parents discover that that there children were switched at birth and in this case that the son they have raised for six years is not theirs. While this film is about two families it focuses on Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama)
Read moreBest known in this country for the vivid animated fantasy films Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, Japanese writer-director Hayao Miyazaki brings us what is arguably his most mature, moving and contemplative film, The Wind Rises. This is reportedly Miyazaki’s last film and with its artistically inspired and introspective protagonist and typical Miyazaki themes such as pacifism, environmental devastation, the role
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