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How Everything Everywhere All at Once Is About Change and Not Conflict
It’s been a long day for directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. They’ve been doing 20-minute press junkets all day. But when they sit down with me to talk about Everything Everywhere All at Once, it’s immediately clear that this isn’t work for them. It’s practically a calling.
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Graphic Novel Gets an English Translation, 40 Years Later
Renowned animator and film director Hayao Miyazaki’s first standalone graphic novel, Shuna’s Journey, is receiving an American release via the Macmillan graphic novel imprint, First Second. Translator Alex Dudok de Wit describes the book as an homage to the traditional emonogatrari comics of late ‘40s and ‘50s Japan, rather than a contemporary manga.
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What Does Hayao Miyazaki’s Work Mean to You?
I’ll never forget the first time I saw a Hayao Miyazaki movie. I was in college and this new animated film called Princess Mononoke was coming to theatres. The trailers looked cool and I’d tangentially heard of the filmmaker’s other films like My Neighbour Totoro — but growing up in a small town, films like…
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Somehow Japan Making Robotic Grandkids for Lonely Grandparents Isn’t the Saddest News of the Week
You know the world is churning out some depressing headlines when news that Takara Tomy has created a robotic talking grandchild to provide comfort and companionship to Japan’s elderly isn’t anywhere near the saddest news of the week — but it definitely comes close.