Tag: Movie: Studio Ghibli

Movie: Only Yesterday (1991)

Posted 1 August, 2016 by Lianne in Entertainment / 8 Comments

A 27-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tôkyô.

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Imagine my absolute delight when I learned that they were finally releasing a proper blu-ray release of this movie to North America with dubs and everything (not that I’ve watched Studio Ghibli movies dubbed…maybe only a couple…and that was with my family…). It always baffled me why they didn’t release this movie as it looked interesting…well, it looked like something I’d definitely check out.

Movie: The Wind Rises (2013)

Posted 31 July, 2015 by Lianne in Entertainment / 2 Comments

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

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*le sigh* Here we are, at the last of the Studio Ghibli films I have lined up on the to-watch queue. I suppose it seemed fitting that my last movie to view happens to be Hayao Miyazaki’s last feature film 🙂 *sobs*

Movie: Ponyo (2008)

Posted 26 June, 2015 by Lianne in Entertainment / 6 Comments

An animated adventure about a five-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become a human.

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I honestly don’t know why it took me so long to get around to watching this movie, lol. I guess it’s because I only had this and The Wind Rises left to watch and I was just prolonging the inevitable 😛 This looked cute and fun so I decided to watch this film first.

Movie: Pom Poko (1994)

Posted 18 March, 2015 by Lianne in Entertainment / 2 Comments

A community of magical shape shifting raccoon dogs desperately struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.

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The list of Studio Ghibli movies I stll have yet to watch is dwindling down to a few now, Pom Poko being one of them. This movie is directed by Isao Takahata, the same director that brought My Neighbours The Yamadas (review) and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (review), both of which I watched earlier this year and absolutely loved.

Movie: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

Posted 1 March, 2015 by Lianne in Entertainment / 8 Comments

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her – but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

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I’ve been watching to watch this movie from the moment I saw the trailer…2013? The art, the music, the mystery of the story (though I quickly realised some halfway through that I did read the tale it was adapted from years ago 😛 ), yeah, I was pretty excited to watch this 🙂

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