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Japanese anime director Isao Takahata has died
- royjacobs 9y agoI'm assuming that a lot of people will be commenting about Grave of the Fireflies. It's a stunning movie, but I felt a much greater connection to My Neighbors The Yamadas. I found it to be such a delightful movie, full of small family moments. Very few actual crises, very few actual stakes, but so wonderfully realized. It's a great loss.
- xab9 9y agoI haven't yet seen it - the only Ghibli animation I did not dare to watch. Heck, I cry my eyes out after each and every one, I might as well just jump from a bridge... Though Pom Poko is wonderful (another Takahata one), it's enviromentalism is subtle and sad. Yamadas were lovely.
- pimeys 9y agoI have the same. I cry in every Ghibli movie, even if they're fun to watch. I cry even when I think about Totoro flying around the big tree, I cry when I remember how Kiki can handle the world and her own life all by herself and I cry when I think about the killer robots of Laputa helping the little animals and plants to survive on that killing machine. And I don't usually cry in the movies. And yes, Grave of the Fireflies is tough. Edit: Or that train crossing the flooded plains. Uh... We should not forget Joe Hisaishi's part in this. Edit2: Or how Porco can't face love after being part of the war as a pilot.
- agumonkey 9y agoYeah it's quite a hidden gem. Thanks for the reminder.
- irq11 9y agoKaguya hime no monogatari was a masterpiece.
- ekianjo 9y agoyes. not well known but excellent.
- SuperNinKenDo 9y agoAbsolutely agree. While I've had mixed reactions to his movies, I absolutely adored Kaguya. I didn't expect such a simple story could bring me to the point of tears, but it was very emotional, and the animation was amazing.
- clarkevans 9y agoThe scene under the cherry blossom is tear jerking. The scene of the princess running is simply amazing. Motion in particular, with flowing kimono, provided an arresting emotional portrait.
- b3lvedere 9y agoMost Ghibli releases are totally awesome. :) Grave of the Fireflies still remains one of the most impressive animations i have ever seen. Such a brutal honest display.
- Vaskivo 9y agoGrave of the Fireflies is a movie I can't think of watching again. Extremely beautiful but also emotionally exhausting. I really enjoyed Only Yesterday. But I tend to like "slice of life" stuff.
- ninjin 9y agoIndeed, “Grave of the Fireflies” was the first ever, and so far only, movie that has brought me to tears. If anyone ever questions if an animated movie can ever convey emotions like “real” movies, think of this masterpiece.
- eumenides1 9y agoThe best part is, those that deny the power, can prove it by watching the movie. Experience says there won't be a repeat viewing.
- ythn 9y ago> was the first ever, and so far only, movie that has brought me to tears What about "Life is Beautiful" and/or "It's a Wonderful Life"?
- yial 9y ago“It’s a Wonderful Life” has never failed to elicite tears from me at some point in the film. They’re never quite tears of sadness though. They’re this moving, so full of emotion, happy/ sad/ overwhelmed tears that actually feel like a cathartic experience when done. I used to live in state college, pa.... the State Theater (name of the cinema, not a state run theater ) there would have showings of it around Christmas time. I would highly recommend.
- swombat 9y agoI wrote a long reply to this but then realised maybe you meant that it's the first and only _animated_ movie that brought you to tears?
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- ekianjo 9y agoMy Neighbors the Yamada is great but it is not really a Ghibli creation since it is adapted from an existing comic strip. Grave of The Fireflies comes from a book but is definitely a whole different thing.
- royjacobs 9y agoCertainly, but I adore the stylized (if you can call any kind of anime stylized) pastel coloring, the deliberate rough edges. Delicious :)
- xtrapolate 9y agoA video of the team at Ghibli having a late dinner together, as they near the release date of one of their bigger features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc They were working hard in that studio, with passion and conviction.
- _suricatta 9y agoGreat artist. I truly believe "Only Yesterday" is one of the best movies ever made.
- Maken 9y agoOnly Yesterday is probably one of the most underrated movies from Ghibli.
- bornonline1 9y agothe only ghibli ive seen in a cinema and it was perfect in every way.
- ousta 9y agoI agree. this is a fantastic movie that went beyond the medium limitations in ways only few people in the 7art did. (another anime genius satoshi kon did too)
- Arqu 9y agoThis is a very sad day since their work marked my childhood and I'll always cherris anything they ever touched. The very emotion and story they encapsulate is purely breadth taking. Princess Mononoke, Howls moving castle, Laputa, Spirited away are probably going to stay my all time favourites.
- zaarn 9y agoStudio Ghibli movies shaped my childhood and I loved them. (My parents didn't even realise they were Anime until later, they assumed it was from Disney because they were so well made) Spirited Away was a favorite family movie for a long time. I think Laputa - Castle in the Sky will remain my all-time favorite and Princess Mononoke second.
- eloisant 9y agoActually the movies you cite are all Miyazaki. Takahata directed Grave of the Fireflies, Pompoko, my Neighbors the Yamada and others.
- shagie 9y agoFor some, it probably shaped it more than they knew. The Rankin-Bass animations (The Hobbit, The Last Unicorn, etc) was outsourced to a studio named Topcraft. > The studio went bankrupt and dissolved in June 15, 1985 essentially splitting the studio in half. Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata bought the studio when laying off most of its animation staff and changed its name to Studio Ghibli.
- calcifer 9y agoI would put Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind slightly above Laputa, but agreed otherwise :)
- SuperNinKenDo 9y agoI have a mixed perception of his films (I absolutely hated 'Grave of the Fireflies' on multiple levels, loved many of his other films, and disliked or felt ambivalent about others), but he was a man who really cared about the craft, and that's getting rarer and rarer in the anime industry. I consider this a great loss.
- lopegwapo 9y agoI balled so hard with gotf
- phyller 9y agoI think you mean "bawled", as in to cry noisily, right? Right?
- JohnStudio 9y agoHenti overdosed. The epidemic is real.
- innocentoldguy 9y agoI watched Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka), alone, sitting it my in-laws' condo in Tokyo back in 1991. To this day, it remains one of the most emotionally wrenching film experiences of my life. The only movie I've ever cried through. I consider it the best "war" film I've ever seen. I have enjoyed nearly every movie Studio Ghibli has produced, especially early films like Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä and Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta but Hotaru no Haka has a special, honored place at the top of my list. Rest in peace, 高畑さん
- lechiffre10 9y agoGrew up with these movies. Sad day. Moulded my childhood