Movies: Isao Takahata
- 2003
Winter Days (2003)
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Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the t...
- 1979
Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1979)
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Heidi (1974) Japanese anime series by Zuiyo Eizo. It was directed by Isao Takahata, has been dubbed into many languages. The TV series was directed also in Italy, has been distributed in 1978. After divided also in three feature films, Heidi a scuola...
- 1987
The Story of Yanagawa's Canals (1987)
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A partially-animated documentary about the preservation and restoration of the canal system in Yanagawa, Fukuoka...
- 1977
Heidi in the City (1977)
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Heidi leaves her beloved Alm and moves to Frankfurt, where she finds a new good friend in Clara. Aunt Dete wants Heidi to leave her grandfather on the mountain pasture and go with her to Frankfurt, where she is supposed to live with the Sesemann fami...
- 2004
Yasuo Ōtsuka's Joy in Motion (2004)
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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...
- 2002
The Cat Returns - Making of (2002)
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A promotional film by Studio Ghibli about the work on the film "The Cat Returns" (directed by Hiroyuki Morita)...
- 1998
How Ghibli Was Born (1998)
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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)....
- 2005
Ghibli and The Miyazaki Mystery (2005)
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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...
- 1961
The Orphan Brother (1961)
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After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. Whil...
- 2010
Ghibli's Bookshelf (2010)
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This August 2010 NHK documentary explores the influence of selected children's literature on Miyazaki and Takahata's body of work and on Studio Ghibli as a whole. Also included is a conversation between Miyazaki and Japanese author and TV personality...
- 2007
A Ghibli Artisan - Kazuo Oga Exhibition - The One Who Drew Totoro's Forest (2007)
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From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and background artist for many famed works from Japan's Studio Ghibli. Over 600 works from the artist were on di...
- 1972
Panda! Go Panda! (1972)
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Cheerful Mimiko has a wonderfully strange family—a Panda for her Papa; and his son Panny, calls her Mom! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won't get into trouble. Despite his efforts to behave, Panny ca...
- 1980
3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie (1980)
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A young Italian boy named Marco is devastated when his mother must leave home to work in Argentina to pay off the family debt. She sends the family letters, but soon the messages stop coming, which worries Marco and sets him off on an epic quest to f...
- 2011
Ghibli Landscapes - A Journey to Encounter Directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki's Starting Point (2011)
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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...
- 1991
The Making of Only Yesterday (1991)
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A making of documentary on the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday...
- 1999
The World, The Journey Of My Heart - Traveler: Animation Film Director Isao Takahata (1999)
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A documentary film following Isao Takahata to Canada to meet Frédéric Back....
- 1968
Spooky Kitaro (1968)
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Kitarō, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills. He thwarts the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity. A retelling of episodes 5-6 from the 1968 TV anime....
- 2015
Hyohyo: Dear Mr. Yasuo Otsuka (2015)
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Documentary about Yasuo Otsuka, famous Japanese animator and mentor of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Featuring interviews with Japanese animation legends such as Masaaki Osumi, Youichi Kotabe, Sadao Tsukioka and Isao Takahata....
- 1993
Alps no Shōjo Heidi: Heidi to Clara Hen (1993)
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- 1973
Fantasia (1973)
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A 1973 musical film released by Toho-Towa, directed by Masanori Hata, Shôhei lImamura, Kei Kumai, Jun'ya Satô, Isao Takahata, Takeshi Kitano & Akira Kurosawa. A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and inte...