Tag "Goro Miyazaki"

GKIDS to Enter Four Pics in Oscar Race

August 29, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Indie distributors GKIDS announced today that it will have four feature films competing for the 2012 Best Animated Feature Oscar and Annie Awards. The distributor is planning Oscar-qualifying runs in November for: – From Up on Poppy Hill (directed by Goro Miyazaki) (Japan) – Le Tableau (directed by Jean-François Laguionie) (France) [...]

GKids to Release Ghibli’s ‘Poppy Hill’

June 6, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

New York-based indie distributor GKIDS announced today that it has picked up Studio Ghibli’s award-winning 2011 movie From Up on Poppy Hill. Although the national release date in the U.S. will officially be March 2013, the studio is planning a special Academy Award consideration window for the film later this [...]

Ghibli’s ‘Poppy Hill’ Wins Japan’s Academy Award

March 5, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

La-colline-aux-coquelicots-Poppy-Hill-150

Studio Ghibli’s hit From Up on Poppy Hill won Japan’s prestigious Academy Award for Best Animated Feature last Friday. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son, Goro, the gentle coming-of-age movie is set in Yokohoma in 1963 and follows the daily life of a responsible girl named Umi Matsuzaka, who is drawn [...]

Trailer for Miyazaki’s ‘Kokuriko-Zaka’ Is Up!

July 7, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

Although Americans will have to wait until February 2012 to see Studio Ghibli’s 2010 feature Arrietty in theaters, Japanese audiences will have the chance to see another new animated feature from the much-respected studio on July 16. Co-written by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his son Goro (Tales from Earthsea), [...]

Goro Miyazaki to Direct ‘Kokuriko-zaka kara’ for Studio Ghibli

December 20, 2010 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

Studio Ghibli has set Kokuriko-zaka kara (From Kokuriko Hill) as its next animated feature film release, with Goro Miyazaki set to direct. Due to be released next summer, the feature is based on a manga by Chixzuru Takahashi and Testuro Sayama and is about a group of teens struggling to [...]