The Boy and the Heron

The Boy and the Heron

October 31, 2024
🇯🇵, 🎙️, 🔟, 2023, adult animation/anime, christian bale, dave bautista, florence pugh, gemma chan, hayao miyazaki🎬, karen fukuhara, luca padovan, mark hamill, robert pattinson, willem dafoe

MOVIE #2,108 • SCORE 10/10 • 11.01.24 SERIES: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR FOCUS CHRONOLOGICALLY ⫷ MOVIE #2,107 - (YOU ARE HERE) ...

The Wind Rises

The Wind Rises

September 12, 2024
🇯🇵, 2013, 6️⃣, adult animation/anime, hayao miyazaki🎬, hideaki anno, hidetoshi nishijima, masahiko nishimura, miori yakimoto, morio kazama, nomura mansai

MOVIE #1,963 • SCORE 6/10 • 09.13.24 SERIES: HAYAO MIYAZAKI DIRECTOR FOCUS The penultimate Miyazaki is maybe the least excited I've ...

Wicked City (1987)

Wicked City (1987)

September 02, 2024
🇯🇵, 1987, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, david povall, edie mirman, gaye kruger, gregory sengoff, jeff winkless, mike reynolds, robert v. barron, yoshiaki kawajiri🎬

MOVIE #1,938 • SCORE 8/10 • 09.03.24 SERIES: TWO FOR TUESDAY To welcome back TWO FOR TUESDAY after a month break, we have a special FOUR...

Cryptozoo

Cryptozoo

January 28, 2021
🇺🇸, 🎙️, 2021, 7️⃣, adult animation/anime, angeliki papoulia, dash snow 🎬, grace zabriskie, lake bell, michael cera, peter stormare, zoe kazan

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World of Tomorrow

World of Tomorrow

October 08, 2020
🇺🇸, 2020, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, don hertzfeldt🎬, jack parrett, julia pott, winona mae

MOVIE #1,256 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.28.23 There's a lot going on here in these three episodes of Don Hertzfeldt’s beloved avant-garde...

Ride Your Wave

Ride Your Wave

June 09, 2019
🇯🇵, 🎙️, 2019, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, honoka matsumoto, kentaro ito, masaaki yuasa 🎬, rina kawaei, ryota katayose

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I Lost My Body

I Lost My Body

May 16, 2019
🇫🇷, 🎙️, 2019, 7️⃣, adult animation/anime, hakim faris, jérémy clapin 🎬, patrick d'assumçao, victoire du bois

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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

October 19, 2018
🇪🇸, 🎙️, 2018, 6️⃣, adult animation/anime, cyril corral, fernando ramos, javier balas, jorge usón, luis enrique de tomás, salvador simó 🎬

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The Wolf House

The Wolf House

February 22, 2018
🇨🇱, 2018, 9️⃣, adult animation/anime, amalia kassai, cristobal león🎬, joaquín cociña🎬, rainer krause

MOVIE #1,080 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.26.23 Trying too hard to parse meaning out of this, especially in any given moment, feels like blood...

Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs

February 14, 2018
🇺🇸, 2018, 3️⃣, adult animation/anime, bill murray, bob balaban, bryan cranston, edward norton, greta gerwig, jeff goldblum, koyu rankin, liev schreiber, scarlett johansson, wes anderson🎬

MOVIE #1,240 • 🍿🍿🍿 • 11.16.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS This is a movie about how all dogs in Japan are white people and all Japanese...

Night is Short, Walk on Girl

Night is Short, Walk on Girl

April 07, 2017
🇯🇵, 🎙️, 2017, 6️⃣, adult animation/anime, gen hoshino, kana hanazawa, masaaki yuasa 🎬

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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

November 10, 2003
🇯🇵, 🎙️, 2️⃣, 2003, adult animation/anime, kazuhisa takenouchi 🎬, true random

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Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke

July 11, 1997
🇯🇵, 1997, 9️⃣, adult animation/anime, hayao miyazaki🎬, kaoru kobayashi, yōji matsuda, yūko tanaka, yuriko ishida

MOVIE #1,745 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.21.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス I think the “princess” in the title led me astray as far as what my expectations w...

Porco Rosso

Porco Rosso

July 17, 1992
🇯🇵, 1992, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, cary elwes, hayao miyazaki🎬, kimberly williams-paisley, michael keaton, susan egan

MOVIE #1,704 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 06.07.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス This one seems like a lesser Miyazaki at first glance but I appreciated how weird an...

My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro

April 15, 1988
🇯🇵, 9️⃣, adult animation/anime, chika sakamoto, hayao miyazaki🎬, hitoshi takagi, noriko hidaka, shigesato itoi, sumi shimamoto, tanie kitabayashi, toshiyuki amagasa

MOVIE #1,604 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 05.03.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス I really just vibed with this one, didn’t take any notes. And I had an excellent t...

Castle in the Sky

Castle in the Sky

August 01, 1986
🇯🇵, 1986, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, barbara goodson, hayao miyazaki🎬, jack witte, louise chambell, rachel vanowen

MOVIE #1,558 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.19.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス Continuing my trend of going at these every which way in terms of audio and subs, I ...

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

March 10, 1984
🇯🇵, 1984, 8️⃣, adult animation/anime, gorō naya, hayao miyazaki🎬, iemasa kayumi, sumi shimamoto, yōji matsuda, yoshiko sakakibara

MOVIE #1,518 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 04.05.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス It’s cartoon time! This is immediately more interesting and serious than the first o...

The Castle of Cagliostro

The Castle of Cagliostro

December 14, 1979
🇯🇵, 1979, 6️⃣, adult animation/anime, bridget hoffman, david hayter, hayao miyazaki🎬, kevin seymour, kirk thornton

MOVIE #1,471 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 03.22.24 宮崎駿監督のフォーカス The other night, my daughter and I watched Spirited Away on a whim, my first exposure t...