Asian - Australian Animation Features
The latest offering from Studio Ghibli is sweet and good-natured, but it doesn't match its previous achievements.
Yeon Sangho becomes with his sophomore feature (after the equally blistering King of Pigs) one of the masters of contemporary adult animation.
A sensitive Chinese animated feature on the Holocaust: A Jewish Girl in Shanghai.
The Indian feature film on the Mahabharata hero Arjun is a welcome, if incomplete portrayal of a nation and its own, distinctive codes.
The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda is a well-studied but lifeless experiment on identity and the motive of the feral child.
From Up on Poppy Hill is deeply rooted in Japanese traditions -in fact, so deeply that it almost suffocates.
Colorful by Keiichi Hara makes the soul incarnation issue a tale of moral transformation, and is daring enough to visualize both sides of the moral coin.
The new film by the Japanese Masayuki Kojima and Madhouse presents a clearly defined story of responsibility (and soemtimes true love) between a boy and a dog.
Studio Ghibli, the birthplace of Miyazaki's films, presents an animated film based on a British fantasy novel.
