Only Yesterday (DVD)

First viewing of this little gem and already it rockets to among my three favourite Ghibli's, along with Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbour Totoro. I hadn't really heard much about this one except a few proper Ghibli fans giving i the thumbs up so when i saw it in the HMV sale i thought why not. To anyone that enjoys Ghibli films but hasn't seen this one i suggest you search this one out, it displays just how humanistic these little films can be, and shows how animation is definitely not just for kids - but can portray elements of cinema and life that real time motion pictures overlook or can't capture. I have seen many films but few had shown the progression of ...  Read the complete review

I am still very new to anime (Japanese animation), even though I've seen a good few of the movies, because most of these were directed by a mere handful of people. The first I ever saw was the futuristic "Ghost in the Shell", which I didn't fully understand when I first watched it, and all I can remember about it now is that a woman cyborg somehow beats up a tank. More recently I watched Katsuhiro Ôtomo's severely over-the-top "Akira" and "Steamboy", both of which blew me away and left me gasping for air by the end, battle-weary and worn (these films have more explosions than any Hollywood action ...  Read the complete review

Originally released in japan in 1991, it is made by studio ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki the acclaimed maker of such other anime movies as spirited away , princess mononoke, my neighbor totoro and howls moving castle this is one of his older pieces of work, possible based at an older audience it is only available in english subtitle on the UK edition and is approx 119 minutes long. Its a bout the past and present life of an office lady called Taeko Okajima. Cut scenes take us back and forth through her current life and her life in the 1960s when she was a little girl. In her present life she travels on a sabbatical on a farm, while there she falls in ...  Read the complete review