Japanese Title: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki Produced By: Toshio Suzuki Originally Released: July 20, 2001 Returning to this series with Spirited Away feels like standing on a grassy hill at sunrise and taking a deep relaxing breath. Spirited Away was, […]
Japanese Title: Hohokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun Directed By: Isao Takahata Produced By: Toshio Suzuki, Seiichiro Ujiie and Takashi Shouji Originally Released: July 17, 1999 If someone were to ask you about your family, what would you say? Would you call them normal or would they […]
Japanese Title: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko Directed By: Isao Takahata Produced By: Toshio Suzuki Originally Released: July 16, 1994 Hello and welcome back to Vault Ghibli! I won’t to start by apologizing for being away from this series for two weeks. Due to the Comic Con […]
Japanese Title: Omoide Poro Poro Directed By: Isao Takahata Produced By: Toshio Suzuki Originally Released: July 20, 1991 I’ve come to think of Studio Ghibli as the masters of making boring stories about nothing happening feel absolutely captivating. Only Yesterday is a prime example of this […]
Japanese Title: Majo no takkyubin Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki Produced By: Hayao Miyazaki Originally Released: July 29, 1989 If My Neighbor Totoro is a story of the last days of childhood, then Kiki’s Delivery Service is the spiritual sequel about the first day of adulthood. One thing that I […]
There’s an old story about a man who lives in a cave and stares at a wall for his entire life, seeing only the shadows of those outside the cave. He thinks this is everything there is. Then, one day, he gets up and goes outside and sees […]