New Studio Ghibli Film Kaze Tachinu Released in Japanese Theatres
Japanese anime fans poured into theatres in their thousands this past weekend, to watch the latest in a long line of monumental Studio Ghibli films. Ghibli, best known for such classic anime as My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Spirited Away are widely considered one of the most influential anime companies of all time. Recently, they worked on the Nintendo DS and PS3 game created by L...
‘Evangelion’ Creator Hideaki Anno to voice lead in Ghibli’s ‘The Wind is Rising’
The first casting news for Studio Ghibli’s upcoming The Wind is Rising film have come to light. In a surprising yet rather exciting turn of events, Hideaki Anno, the creator of the Evangelion franchise, has been cast as the film’s lead as Jiro Horikoshi. This will be Anno’s official voice acting debut, despite having voiced brief uncredited cameos for both FLCL and Magical Shoppi...
Studio Ghibli’s Latest Movie Dated
Hayao Miyazaki’s Kaze Tachinu (The Wind is Rising) is on track for a July 20 premiere, the first film the director has written in five years. We last saw Studio Ghibli in 2011 with the release of From Up on Poppy Hill and this year the revered anime workshop is bringing out two films, one from each of their co-founders. Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki were initially planning on releasing th...