Mr Takahata was awarded France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2015 Japanese anime director Isao Takahata, co-founder of the famed Studio Ghibli, has died at the age of 82. Mr Takahata was ...

Studio Ghibli's co-founder Isao Takahata passed away on 5 April. Karl Smith commemorates the legendary director, screenwriter, and producer with a personal reflection on grief through Takahata's first ...

Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's 1967 novel and directed by the legendary Japanese animator Isao Takahata who died earlier this month, it tells the story of two orphans and their desperate struggle to ...

Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty As for her funeral, Doherty envisioned the guest list being on the "shorter" side. "There's a lot of people that I think would show up that I don't want ...

That is one of the reasons why it took us as long as it did.” The 2018 death of Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata, who Nishimura worked with on Takahata’s final film, The Tale of the ...

For his first film in fourteen years animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya". A dream project for the director that would ...

Howard Zieff’s 1991 coming-of-age drama about Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) has everything you’d expect from a movie like this, including a heartbreaking funeral scene where the 11-year-old ...

A death can feel catastrophic and overwhelming, not only for mourners who loved the deceased person but also for anyone outside the loss who understands the pain it has caused. That is one of the ...

It’s melodramatic, soapy, and sequined. Nevertheless, you won’t be able to hold back the tears when Mahalia Jackson bursts into song at a funeral fit for a queen. If you love Hollywood ...

Isao Takahata died last week at 82. He created some of the most influential and poignant films in the history of Japanese animation.

‘Twisters’ offers an old-school movie thrill ride with a great lead duo. The new movie is powered... ‘Dandelion’ finds its voice telling the story of a woman who seeks hers. Stars KiKi Lay ...