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Studio Ghibli co-founder, director Isao Takahata dies at 82

April 15, 2018 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Isao Takahata, co-founder of the prestigious Japanese animator Studio Ghibli that stuck to a hand-drawn “manga’’ look in the face of digital filmmaking, has died. He was 82. Takahata started Ghibli with Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki in 1985, hoping to create Japan’s Disney, and helped shape the […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2018, Studio Ghibli, VOL 37 NO 16 | APRIL 14 - APRIL 20

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

Songwriter recalls lonely, idyllic childhood, & feeling ‘different’

May 2, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly The half Korean singer/songwriter Priscilla Ahn, coming to the Columbia City Theater on May 13, remembers her childhood in Pennsylvania as idyllic. “I started singing when I was 6,” she said. “One of the first songs I learned to sing was ‘If We Hold on Together’ from ‘The Land […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2014, Andrew Hamlin, Columbia City Theater, Korean, Logic Pro, Matt Bishop, Northwest Asian Weekly, Priscilla Ahn, Rainier Ave, Seattle, Studio Ghibli, Vol 33 No 19 | May 3 - May 9, japan

“The Wind Rises”

March 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Andrew Hamlin Northwest Asian Weekly Master animator and director Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and the man who introduced anime features in America, has declared that “The Wind Rises,” a fictionalized biography of airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi, will be his last film. It is also his first and only film not explicitly directed […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2014, Academy Award, Andrew Hamlin, Best Animated Feature, Caproni Stanley Tucci, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Great Kanto Earthquake, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, Jiro Japanese Boy, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Studio Ghibli, United States, Vol 33 No 13 | March 22 - March 28, Walt Disney Pictures

“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

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