Contributions from Alex Dudok de Wit | Little White Lies

Contributor Alex Dudok de Wit

Anime-style illustration featuring an adult male figure with a facial covering and a young child, set against a background of traditional Japanese buildings and greenery.

How personal trauma and national tragedy inspired Grave of the Fireflies

by Alex Dudok de Wit

Read an exclu­sive extract from the new BFI Clas­sics book on Isao Takahata’s sem­i­nal 1988 animé.
A male character with dark eyes and a red cap, wearing a dark jacket against a bright red background.

The story of Border 1939, the great lost Studio Ghibli film

by Alex Dudok de Wit

Isao Takahata’s unre­alised pas­sion project was intend­ed as a fol­low-up to Grave of the Fireflies.