At the start of Hayao Miyazaki's modern classic Spirited Away, the young heroine Chihiro and her parents are exploring a seemingly abandoned theme park when a boy named Haku greets her with a warning: ...

Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Porco Rosso are all among the absolute best Studio Ghibli anime movies that can easily ...

Yoshiharu Sato shares how Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki supposedly abandoned an early anime project.

The musical theme for Hayao Miyazaki’s new, and likely final, film is a question — just like the film’s original Japanese title. “How Do You Live?” was (regrettably) renamed “The Boy and the Heron” ...

Hayao Miyazaki's son Goro says his father is just too restless for retirement. Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki revealed in October 2017 that Hayao Miyazaki was ending his retirement from ...

Whether referring to an A.I.-driven animation demo as “an insult to life itself,” walking out of a movie directed by his own son (“It feels like I was sitting there for about three hours”), or ...

The twinkly eyed visionary behind Spirited Away expresses some non-magical feelings about making movies and suffering in the documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness. To a subset of film fanatics ...

The animated masterpieces from Studio Ghibli are just as famous for their quiet moments as they are for their epic fantasy scenes. In between riding a dragon or fighting a monster, characters (and ...

This month, Heritage Auctions offers its seventh installment of its Art of Anime & Everything Cool series in a sweeping auction that encompasses the history of animation art – from the genius of Chuck ...

Danny Cox has never seen a movie in his entire life. It was such a relief when Hayao Miyazaki announced he was un-retiring. While it was far from his first attempt at retirement, the announcement that ...

Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement in 2013, following his final film, The Wind Rises. It was his sixth "retirement" and, like his previous five, hasn't stuck -- the auteur ...