Hayao Miyazaki is known for creating strong and nuanced female characters, and these 7 iconic Studio Ghibli heroines prove that completely.

The Boy and the Heron is the latest collection of Hayao Miyazaki films and has been deemed his most introspective work. It is ...

Hayao Miyazaki's best movies feature aspects fans love about Studio Ghibli flicks, from tales like Kiki's Delivery Service to masterpieces like Spirited Away.

Kiki is one of Miyazaki’s most endearing heroines: resourceful and kind, curious and outspoken, gregarious and hardworking. At 13, ...

Above : “Kiki’s Deliver Service” will screen as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2022. (Photo/Fathom Events) More than a decade before J.K. Rowling debuted her sorcerer hero Harry Potter , another ...

Oddly, though Miyazaki has directed 12 films (a large number by animation standards), not all of them receive attention here. Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) is glossed over almost entirely, Howl ...

Kiki, the young witch of ... Miyazaki’s heroes are born into imperfect worlds where people get sick, die, wage war and cause destruction, but even in the filmmaker’s most cynical renderings of ...

Internationally famous animation artist Hayao Miyazaki's final film How Do You Live was released this week in Japan. NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Susan Napier, author of Miyazaki World: A Life in Art.

When Hayao Miyazaki’s long-awaited and supposed swansong The Boy and the Heron opened at No. 1 at the North American box office last December with a record-breaking $12.8 million tally, it was ...