formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Much of Studio Ghibli’s success is down to one man: 84-year-old Hayao Miyazaki, a master animator whose presence towers over the studio’s output. Source: Ghibli’s midlife crisis: as beloved Japanese studio turns 40 will the magic fade? | Studio Ghibli … Continued
The Japanese artist’s instantly recognisable delinquent infants fill a huge show that also includes more sombre – and still angry – work made since the Fukushima disaster. Source: Yoshitomo Nara review: cutesy terrors swear, smoke, play guitar and burn down … Continued
Celebrity presenters included Kacey Musgraves, Finn Wolfhard, J Balvin, and Mayu Matsuoka, while ‘Attack on Titan’ was honored with the inaugural Global Impact Award. Source: 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards Winners List
For the follow-up to her distinguished 2022 debut, ‘Plan 75,’ the Japanese auteur threw out the rule book with ‘Renoir,’ an impressionist feature about the magic of childhood that she describes as “making some kind of sculpture out of clay.” … Continued
French photographer François Prost has been on a 3,000km pilgrimage of passion, driving from Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, to the island of Shikoku in the south, to document Japan’s unique architecture of furtive liaisons. What he found spans from manga-embellished … Continued
The only thing wrong with the British Museum’s rapturous trip through the Technicolor world of Utagawa Hiroshige’s prints is its final section, which explores this early 19th-century Japanese artist’s continuing global influence. A patchy sampling of Hiroshige’s imitators is all … Continued