Studio Ghibli is the home of some of film’s best titles. From Spirited Away to The Boy and the Heron, the studio has put in serious work to craft its reputation. Decades ago, Studio Ghibli made its ...

Two and a half years ago, fresh from a stirring screening of Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, I pitched a book about the feature to the editors of the British Film Institute’s Film Classics ...

A Japanese anime movie hailed as a masterpiece when it was first released decades ago is winning rave reviews around the ...

History was made 30 years ago today, and the animation community isn’t keen on letting anyone forget as much. April 16, 1988 marked a normal day for many around the world, but Japan was preparing to ...

In 1988, Studio Ghibli and director Isao Takahata released Grave of the Fireflies-- a movie that showcased the devastating consequences of war through the experiences of two orphaned siblings. Later ...

You can't talk about Studio Ghibli modern classics without mentioning Grave of the Fireflies. The 1988 anime movie might not be as popular as other titles like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, but ...

For this week’s edition of The Animation That Changed Me, a series in which leading artists discuss one work of animation that deeply influenced them, Céline Desrumaux takes us back to wartime Japan.

Grave of the Fireflies is a classic anime movie set during and after the events of the Pacific War. In it, we witness how the lives of siblings Seita and Setsuko change after an attack on Kobe. It is ...

What? Grave of the Fireflies HAD to have a non-American voice track, I can't believe they didn't do it in Japanese or something, then port it over to english.<BR><BR>Like I said, I listened to the ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...