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.