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Spirited Away (Official Website) is a feature-length animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, released in 2001. Here I have collected some trivia and behind-the-scenes stories about Spirited Away.…
Home Alone, directed by Chris Columbus, was released in 1990. Its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, followed in 1992 with the same director. For people…
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Official Website) is a 1992 comedy directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes, the same director and writer as…
Home Alone (Official Website) is a 1990 family comedy directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes. It is a childhood favorite of mine: I watched it…
Mamoru Hosoda#8217;s 2018 animated feature Mirai (Official Website) is, in a sentence, a story about four-year-old Kun growing up. A boy frustrated that his parents do not understand…
Mirai (Official Website) is an animated feature directed by Mamoru Hosoda and released in Japan on July 20, 2018. This fantasy follows Kun, a pampered four-year-old boy, on…
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Official Website) is an animated feature directed by Mamoru Hosoda, released in Japan on July 15, 2006. Based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s science-fiction…
Belle (Official Website) is an animated feature directed by Mamoru Hosoda, released in Japan on July 16, 2021. The film follows Suzu, a seventeen-year-old high-school student who lives…
Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and the Beast (Official Website) is a story about family—fathers and sons, parents and children. Ren (Kyuta), a boy who strays from a Shibuya…
In Mamoru Hosoda#8217;s animated feature The Boy and the Beast (Official Website), Kyuta (Ren) returns to the human world after eight years and discovers that his resident record…
The Boy and the Beast (Official Website) is an animated feature directed by Mamoru Hosoda, released in Japan on July 11, 2015. Set in two worlds—human Shibuya and…
Wolf Children (official website) is an animated feature directed by Mamoru Hosoda, released in Japan on July 21, 2012. I still remember seeing the trailer at the cinema.…
Wolf Children (official website) is an animated feature directed by Mamoru Hosoda, released in Japan on July 21, 2012. It follows Summer Wars as another original film by…
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, directed by James Mangold, was released on June 30, 2023. It is the fifth film in the Indiana Jones series, with…
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a 2023 feature film directed by James Mangold. Like earlier entries in the series, it skillfully blends historical events and…
Makoto Shinkai’s Children Who Chase Lost Voices (official website) was released in 2011. Already a fan of Shinkai’s work, I naturally went to see it at the cinema.…
Released in 2007, 5 Centimeters per Second (official website, in Japanese) is an animated feature directed by Makoto Shinkai. Here, I look back at the characters and Japanese…
Released on March 3, 2007, 5 Centimeters per Second (official website, in Japanese) is an animated feature directed by Makoto Shinkai. It follows his earlier works Voices of…
Released in 2007, 5 Centimeters per Second (official site, in Japanese) is an animated feature directed by Makoto Shinkai. I already knew his work at the time and…
The Place Promised in Our Early Days is an animated feature directed by Makoto Shinkai and released in 2004. I think I was still a teenager when I…