Isao Takahata Movies

This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

Aki Asakura, an actress who played the voice of Princess Kaguya, travels around Japan to visit the scenery that appeared in Takahata's work. The...

A documentary produced by NHK following the production of "The Boy & The Heron" over 7 years.

Studio Ghibli is Japan's most successful animation studio, with helmers Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away," "My Neighbor Totoro") and Isao Takahata...

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...

A making of documentary on the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday

The story of Au Aurka is set in the hinterland of Tokyo in the eighties. The protagonists are two girls who have a dream that then becomes reality....

A documentary film following Isao Takahata to Canada to meet Frédéric Back.

A short documentary dedicated to |sao Takahata, composed of archive images, released following his death in April 2018.

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe,...