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Animated character floating above a rocky coastal landscape with a traditional Japanese building on a cliff edge.
On Location

Discover the Japanese fishing town that inspired Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo

by Adam Marshall

On a vis­it to the Edo-peri­od town of Tomo­noura, Adam Mar­shall explores the real – and imag­ined – back­drop to one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films.
Animated man in brown robe with a stag; blue sky in background.
Review

The Deer King

by Katie Goh

Stu­dio Ghi­b­li alums Masashi Ando and Masayu­ki Miya­ji chan­nels Princess Mononoke in their visu­al­ly strik­ing ​“med­ical fantasy”.

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In Retrospect
Two cartoon characters, a boy and a girl, holding ice cream cones and smiling on a beach with blue sky and ocean in the background.
Review

Luca

by Kambole Campbell

Pixar’s fish-out-of-water fable on the Ital­ian Riv­iera takes its cues from vivid imag­i­na­tion of Stu­dio Ghibli.

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In Retrospect
Animated girl with big eyes and pigtails, wearing a pink top, against a green background.
Review

Earwig and the Witch

by Lillian Crawford

Stu­dio Ghibli’s first com­put­er-ani­mat­ed fea­ture boasts bags of charm and one its most endear­ing heroines.

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In Retrospect
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.
Two people in diving gear embracing mid-air, surrounded by white butterflies against a bright blue sky.
Review

Away

by James Balmont

This spell­bind­ing and spir­i­tu­al Lat­vian ani­ma­tion has par­al­lels with Stu­dio Ghibli’s The Red Turtle.

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In Retrospect
Animated anthropomorphic dog character wearing a cap and coat, with an exaggerated facial expression, set against a city street background.

The story of Hayao Miyazaki’s forgotten Sherlock Holmes series

by Alistair Ryder

A copy­right dis­pute around 1984’s ​‘Sher­lock Hound’ freed the Japan­ese ani­ma­tor to estab­lish Stu­dio Ghibli.
Two young anime characters, a boy playing the violin and a girl in a red shirt, in a cosy wooden interior setting.
In Praise Of

Whisper of the Heart remains Studio Ghibli’s most moving outlier

by Kambole Campbell

The first and only film from Miyaza­ki pro­tégé Yoshi­fu­mi Kon­do stands among the studio’s best works.
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.
Animated girl with big eyes and pigtails, wearing a pink top, against a green background.
Incoming

Studio Ghibli’s next feature will air on TV this winter

by Charles Bramesco

Aya and the Witch tells the sto­ry of the smartest girl in the world and her hex-cast­ing companion.