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Details of plot for veteran director Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature for 10 years had been kept largely secret

The revered director has said How Do You Live will be his last film, but there has been virtually no publicity.

The script is based on a coming-of-age story about a young boy whose mother is killed in a fire

The director and veteran of Studio Ghibli plans to retire after the release of How Do You Live? which will forgo trailers and marketing ahead of its Japanese release next month

Animation studio’s lead producer criticised an unnamed American film for releasing trailers that tell cinemagoers ‘everything that’s going to happen in that movie’

"This world is not for the ordinary!" says an elderly character in Makoto Shinkai’s latest anime. And ‘ordinary’ is the last word you would apply to a rich and spectacular fantasy that combines the Your Name director’s trademark photorealism with the sort of whimsical shape-shifting and elaborate alternate-world building that…

Inspired by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, director Makoto Shinkai crafts a story where the characters draw on their memories to avert disaster.

Makoto Shinkai was never the same filmmaker after the 2011 earthquake stuck Japan

Hayao Miyazaki has created some masterpieces of cinema - and I decided to watch all his movies in a row. Let's talk about it.

Artists complain that image-generating A.I. steals their work without consent, while limiting their opportunities to get paying work.

There’s nothing quite like the return of a beloved auteur to get the cinephile’s juices flowing. Or the next installment in one of the century’s biggest franchises. Or paparazzi photos of Barbie and Ken. Or an overprotective doll. Which means 2023’s cup overfloweth for moviegoers of every stripe — the…