Get animated with BFI Player’s Japan 2020 Anime Collection
Note: this feature presents Japanese names in the traditional fashion of family name first, followed by given name. One sparkling ray of light in this dismal year has been BFI…
Tag: Studio Ghibli
2016 – Rewind And Re-View
2016. We’ll not dwell on what an awful year it was. Suffice to say there was a lot happening in the movie world, some of it bad, some of it…
When Marnie Was There
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Writer: Keiko Niwa, Masashi Ando, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Joan G. Robinson (book) Cast: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima, Susumu Terajima (Japanese version) / Hailee Steinfeld, Kiernan Shipka,…
Must-See Films at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival
The 59th London Film Festival runs Wednesday 7th to Sunday 18th October. 12 days. 240 movies and documentary features, plus hundreds of shorts from all over the globe. Even the…
Exhilarating Tale of Princess Kaguya sneak peek!
The Tale of Princess Kaguya is out in UK cinemas from Friday 20th March and the good folk at Studiocanal have made available a clip from one of the film’s…
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Director: Isao Takahata Writer: Isao Takahata, Riko Sakaguchi Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Lucy Liu, Darren Criss (English language version), Aki Asakura, Tatasuya Nakadai, Takeo Chii, Nobuko Miyamoto…
Blu-Ray Review: Spirited Away
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Writer: Hayao Miyazaki Cast: Rumi Hiiragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki Cert: PG Running time: 124mins Year: 2001 The lowdown: Still the only anime movie to win…
Giovanni’s Island
Director: Mizuho Nishikubo Writer: Shigemichi Sugita, Yoshiki Sakurai Cast: Kota Yokoyama, Masachika Ichimura, Yusuke Santamaria, Saburo Kitajima, Polina Ilyushenko, Tatsuya Nakadai Cert: PG Running time: 102mins Year: 2014 The…
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Director: Dean DeBlois Writer: Dean DeBlois, Cressida Cowell (book) Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, Kit Harrington, Djimon Hounsou, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill, Kirsten Wiig, Christopher Mintz-Plasse Cert: PG…
The Wind Rises
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Writer: Hayao Miyazaki Cast: Hideaki Anno (Japanese language), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Werner Herzog, Stanley Tucci (English language dub) Cert: PG Running time:…