Tagged Hayao Miyazaki

If you haven't done so before, we'd recommend watching each of these brief shorts as you go through. The shortest is 2:32 and the longest is around eight minutes.  Writer-director Michaël Dudok de Wit...

1. Hayao Miyazaki — not the hero we deserve, but the one we need He pulls himself out and they drag him back in. Yes, Hayao Miyazaki is set to come out of retirement for one last film. Having got out of...

Following 2010’s mystical Oscar nominee The Secret of Kells, budding animation master Tomm Moore returns to tackle Celtic folklore in Song of the Sea. In this he produces a wonderful film, haunted by...

Miyazaki who? Upon the 2013 retirement of visionary director and Studio Ghibli head honcho Hayao Miyazaki, filmgoers could have been forgiven for wondering whether the impossibly high standards the studio...

Princess Kaguya is beautiful, and that presents a problem: our protagonist has her life planned, wrapped and presented to everyone else, her restless energy and passion gradually receding into the darker...

The names of Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi are synonymous with the iconic Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli; that of award-winning director Isao Takahata, however, is one less known and more often...

If there's one thing that unifies this year's stellar crop of Oscar-nominated animated shorts, it's that each one is wildly different to the others. Hailing from all around the world, dealing with a...

Without a doubt, you will have heard the song Let It Go from Disney's animated film Frozen in the past few months. If you're saying you haven't, then you're lying - since its release in December, it's been...

Here at ORWAV we’re not going to bore you with a Best Films of 2014 round-up just because we’re halfway through the year. Instead, our writers are here to offer something different, with the specific...

Hayao Miyazaki’s films have always been bathwater cinema; warm and comforting and so enchantingly illustrated that we never truly want to leave them. The grief of being hoisted out of The Wind Rises,...

In a career spanning five decades, Hayao Miyazaki has transformed the genre of animation.  His ability to incorporate thematic depth and visual excellence into his features has inspired generations of...