Isao Takahata
3 titles · japanese contemporary
Studio Ghibli's co-founder made animated films as realist as live action. Grave of the Fireflies follows fourteen-year-old Seita and his little sister Setsuko after their mother is killed in an air raid on Kobe. In Only Yesterday, a woman in her twenties travels to the countryside and remembers herself as a schoolgirl. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya is drawn in charcoal and watercolour, the story of a girl found inside a shining stalk of bamboo.
Signature
- Children and women at the centre.
- Hand-drawn, sketch-like style (The Tale of The Princess Kaguya).
- Everyday rural life observed in detail.
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