Isao Takahata Movies

A making of documentary on the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday

Kitarō, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. A...

One day, Kandume's can boy, who lived happily with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is thrown away. Eventually, the can boy has a...

This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

Studio Ghibli is Japan's most successful animation studio, with helmers Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro") and Isao Takahata...

A documentary film following Isao Takahata to Canada to meet Frédéric Back.

Documentary about Yasuo Otsuka, famous Japanese animator and mentor of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Featuring interviews with Japanese animation...

Yasuo Ōtsuka was the mentor of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, the man who taught them to feel the joy of animation. As the supervising...

Aki Asakura, an actress who played the voice of Princess Kaguya, travels around Japan to visit the scenery that appeared in Takahata's work. The...

The story of Au Aurka is set in the hinterland of Tokyo in the eighties. The protagonists are two girls who have a dream that then becomes reality....

This August 2010 NHK documentary explores the influence of selected children's literature on Miyazaki and Takahata's body of work and on Studio...

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe,...