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1 day ago · Grave of the Fireflies ( Japanese: 火垂るの墓, Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Japanese animated war drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka .
1 day ago · Composer Joe Hisaishi has provided the soundtracks for most of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films. In their book Anime Classics Zettai!, Brian Camp and Julie Davis made note of Michiyo Yasuda as "a mainstay of Studio Ghibli's extraordinary design and production team". [17] . At one time the studio was based in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo. [18]
2 days ago · With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan 's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay.
4 days ago · Grave of The Fireflies was based on the book of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka. Its accuracy in depicting the horrors, uncertainty, and scarcity that marked life in Japan during World War II is ...
4 days ago · The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran) is one of my favourite types of books, half biography, half translation. The first hundred pages contain excellent look at the lives of two nineteenth-century poets, a married couple, before takes over to translate a selection of their work.
1 day ago · The moment I read Knox’s first book, Sirens, the first in his excellent Manc-noir Aidan Waits trilogy, I knew I’d want to keep on reading this author. After the three Aidan Waits books,…
4 days ago · Representatively, Katsumata Tomoharu and Shinbo Akiyuki used to write a lot. According to what the voice actors said in the interview, they acted in a high tone, but the director told them not to do it because it was not realistic. [6]
