The assumption has been that The Boy and the Heron would be Miyazaki Hayao’s last film. Now, Ghibli VP Nishioka Junichi suggests otherwise.
Around the world, the Barbenheimer meme has helped launch two Hollywood films into the stratosphere. In Japan, the meme isn’t going over nearly as well.
After a decade, master director Miyazaki Hayao is back with a full-length animated film. How does the mysterious How Do You Live stack up?
Fresh news about the documentary on one of Japan’s most infamous murder cases – and an exclusive interview with a featured reporter.
Kore-eda Hirokazu is back with his first Japanese-language film in five years – a rumination on our limited perception of the lives of others.
Miyazaki Hayao’s highly anticipated new film is less than two months out from release. Now Ghibli says there won’t be any trailers before the lights dim and the film begins playing!
“Suzume” has been another major hit for popular anime director Shinkai Makoto. See where it stacks up in both Japan and the world at large.
The major streaming service for Studio Ghibli films in Russia is losing rights to the library after May. Will fans go back to pirating?
Kinji Fukasaku’s 1970s gangster movies upended decades of depictions of the yakuza and held up a mirror to Japanese society at the same time.
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