Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 1997 – Japan – Cert. PG – 134m ***** Groundbreaking, mythological, Japanese, animated epic – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June Originally reviewed for What’s On in London when the film appeared in the Barbican’s 2001 Studio Ghibli […]
Director – Takahide Hori – 2021 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 101m ****1/2 A cyborg is dropped from the planet’s surface into its depths by his immortal but impotent masters to investigate the beings who have evolved in the levels below – feature length, stop-frame epic is out in UK cinemas on Monday, April […]
Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2022 – Japan – Cert. PG – 122m ***1/2 Aided by a man turned into a mobile, talking, three-legged chair, a schoolgirl must prevent giant, freak weather ‘worms’ from devastating Japan with earthquakes – anime feature is out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, April 14th Prompted by a […]