Category: castles in the sky

For a studio that makes films largely for young females, Whisper of the Heart is a film particularly catered to this demographic. The lone film helmed by the man Hayao Miyazaki personally groomed to take over the studio, Yoshifumi Kondō,...

My Neighbor Totoro kicks off with one of the most ridiculously delightful opening sequences, animated or otherwise. With cobwebs, grasshoppers, spiders, general creepy-crawlies, bats, worms, and a morphing puffy white creature, all dancing to a sugary-sweet Japanese pop song, it...

In 1991, Tokyo was already a massive modern metropolis. With the tech revolution in full swing and the early start of the internet boom, Japan was developing into a world leader in the industry. It is this world that Studio...