The new Studio Ghibli movie Arriety (shortened from The Borrower Arriety) will be released in the US in February 2012. The movie is written by Miyazaki, but not directed by him:
The voice cast for the dubbing will include Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, David Henrie and Carol Burnett (Mendler and Henrie both poached from Disney’s own Wizards of Waverly Place).
I urge everyone to go see this movie in the theater. Not just because it’s promising to be a great flick, but because it could be the end of Studio Ghibli:
This from founder Hayao Miyazaki himself, who says that if the adaptation of Mary Norton’s Borrowers series of children’s fantasy novels doesn’t do well at box offices in the West, Ghibli could close up shop as a production studio and live on with a skeleton crew as a mere copyright management company. The film opened in Japan this past July.
. Since then all his movies have been done through that studio. The studio also distributes his movies in Japan with an agreement with Disney for distribution in the US. In 2001, the studio set up a museum for people to visit. In 2008, I paid a visit to a museum. Let’s find out more about the museum.
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, I decided to just do brief reviews of the one’s I’ve seen. For tomorrow’s finale of Miyazaki Week, I’m planning on something a little different. So read the reviews and come back tomorrow.
, this is a sweet coming of age story for a young witch. It’s also the first movie in the Studio Ghibli/Disney relationship. I have mixed feelings about that relationship. On one hand, the partnership makes sure that every Miyazaki movie will be released in the US theaters and get a DVD. But, on the other hand, I’m not sure Disney is doing a great job marketing Miyazaki and his films. So, let’s go visit Kiki.
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) are almost national symbols in Japan. It is a simple tale of children, but the mood and the characters make the movie memorable and exciting. So, let’s go visit Totoro.