Movies: Isao Takahata

2004
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion (2004)
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion
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Yasuo Ōtsuka was the mentor of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, the man who taught them to feel the joy of animation. As the supervising animator of their films and through the creation of superb scenes such as Lupin leaping from turret to turret in...
1991
The Making of Only Yesterday (1991)
The Making of Only Yesterday
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A making of documentary on the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday...
1998
How Ghibli Was Born (1998)
How Ghibli Was Born
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A contemporary look at the creation and evolution of Studio Ghibli, from ‘The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun’ (1968) to ‘Princess Mononoke’ (1997)....
1999
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Isao Takahata (1999)
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Isao Takahata
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A documentary film following Isao Takahata to Canada to meet Frédéric Back....
2005
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery (2005)
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery
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Studio Ghibli is Japan's most successful animation studio, with helmers Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro") and Isao Takahata ("Grave of The Fireflies," "The Tale of Princess Kaguya") creating a bonanza for producer/prexy Toshio Su...
2011
Japanese Cinema: New Territories (2011)
Japanese Cinema: New Territories
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This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s....
2014
Ghibli Landscapes - Visit 'Japan' as Depicted by Isao Takahata (2014)
Ghibli Landscapes - Visit 'Japan' as Depicted by Isao Takahata
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Aki Asakura, an actress who played the voice of Princess Kaguya, travels around Japan to visit the scenery that appeared in Takahata's work. The documentary also includes an interview with Director Takahata. This documentary is composed from the frag...
2018
NHK Image File: I Want To Meet This Person - Isao Takahata, Animation Film Director (2018)
NHK Image File: I Want To Meet This Person - Isao Takahata, Animation Film Director
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A short documentary dedicated to |sao Takahata, composed of archive images, released following his death in April 2018....
1993
Alps no Shōjo Heidi: Heidi to Clara Hen (1993)
Alps no Shōjo Heidi: Heidi to Clara Hen
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2011
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point (2011)
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point
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In this documentary we travel to the Swiss Alps and to the Canadian Prince Edward Island looking at the origins of the two classic TV series - Heidi, the Girl of the Alps and Anne of Green Gables. We will also learn how the Japanese scenery found its...
1988
Au (1988)
Au
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The story of Au Aurka is set in the hinterland of Tokyo in the eighties. The protagonists are two girls who have a dream that then becomes reality. Produced by Iso Takahata in 1988, the film was positively received by Italian critics...
1988
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Grave of the Fireflies
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In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving...