• About
  • Events
  • Community Calendar
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Seattle Chinese Post

Northwest Asian Weekly

ad_wong.jpg (468×60)

  • Community
    • Names in the News
    • Local
    • Business
    • Pictorials
    • Obituaries
  • Nation
  • World
  • Arts & Entertainment
  • Columns
    • On the Shelf
    • At the Movies
    • A-POP!
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • The Layup Drill
    • Travel
    • Wayne’s Worlds
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Commentary
    • Publisher Ng’s blog
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Classifieds
  • Community Calendar
You are here: Home / Archives for Isao Takahata

Hand-drawn ‘Princess’ stands apart from other Oscar nominees

February 22, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press TOKYO (AP) —The princess laughs and floats in sumie-brush sketches of faint pastel, a lush landscape that animated film director Isao Takahata has painstakingly depicted to relay his gentle message of faith in this world. But his Oscar-nominated work stands as a stylistic challenge to Hollywood’s computer-graphics cartoons, where 3D […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, National News Tagged With: 2015, Academy Awards, Although Kaguya, Associated Press, Daisuke Watanabe, Hand-drawn Princess, Isao Takahata, Johanna Spyri, Princess Kaguya, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, Tokyo, Unlike Hayao Miyazaki, Vol 34 No 9 | February 21 - February 27, japan

Lilting, inversions, and stray dogs: Top 10 Asian movie selections of 2014

January 5, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly I saw this year in Asian film as anime-heavy, but with a number of laudable live-action pictures in the bargain. Here are my picks for the Top 10 Asian Pacific American films for this year. 10. “Patema Inverted,” directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura, starring Yukiyo Fujii, Nobuhiko Okamoto, and Shinya […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: 2014, Aki Asakura, Andrew Hamlin, Asian Pacific American, Chen Shiang-chyi, Cheng Pei-pei, Ghost Whispers, Isao Takahata, Kengo Kora, Miori Takimoto, Northwest Asian Weekly, Stray Dogs, Takeo Chii, Tsai Ming-liang, censorship

“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”

October 31, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Frequently in “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya,” anime director Isao Takahata’s first film in 14 years, the edges of the frame seem unfinished, fading into white.  This directs the viewer’s attention to the center of the frame, to whatever action, in whatever colors.  Then gradually, the frame fills […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2014, Aki Asakura, Andrew Hamlin, Capitol Hill, East Roy Street, Harvard Exit Theatre, Isao Takahata, Kazuo Oga, Lady Sagami, Northwest Asian Weekly, Princess Kaguya, Princess Little Bamboo, Seattle, Shogo Furuya, Vol 33 No 45 | November 1 - November 7, attention

“The Secret World Of Arrietty”

November 16, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Studio Ghibli, founded in 1985 by anime directors Hayao Miyazaki

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, At the Movies Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Aunt Jessica, Bridgit Mendler, Disney-produced English-language, Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Mary Norton, Northwest Asian Weekly, Studio Ghibli, Vol 31 No 47 | November 17 - November 23

SIFF celebrates Studio Ghibli in “Castles in the Sky” series

June 22, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly In 1985, Japanese anime directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata joined forces to create a new studio for anime films. The studio’s name, Studio Ghibli, was named after an Arabic word meaning “Mediterranean wind,” with the hope that their works would blow a new wind through the world of […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2012, Andrew Hamlin, Delivery Service, FID, Hayao Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Morita, Isao Takahata, Northwest Asian Weekly, Ocean Waves, Pom Poko, Queen Anne Avenue North, SIFF, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, Tomomi Mochizuki, United States, Vol 31 No 26 | June 23 - June 29, Yoshifumi Kondo

Subscribe to our e-news

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
© 2022 NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
412 MAYNARD AVE. S., SEATTLE, WA 98104
206-223-5559 | INFO@NWASIANWEEKLY.COM