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A lovingly crafted fantasy on an epic scale, “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is a film about transformation made by filmmakers in transition. Directed by Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2015 ...

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Recently, it's felt almost like our duty to live in a world devoid of magic. When everything's falling apart, there's this pressure to "live in the real world" — to replace all wonder and hope with ...

Even if you don’t happen to know the story behind Mary And The Witch’s Flower’s production, there may be something strangely familiar about the company logo that fades up at the start: a simple line ...

ANNOYINGLY I was unable to include this in last week’s column – my demands for five pages of space are still falling on deaf ears. But this anime from Ghibli legends Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki ...

The production house was founded by former Studio Ghibli staffers. There’s a whole world beyond Ghibli. The newly founded Studio Ponoc is hoping to prove just that with “Mary and the Witch’s Flower,” ...

After the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s retirement a few years ago (luckily, it didn’t seem to take; he announced plans for a new film in 2017), many wondered who would pick up the ...

Magic flows freely if not infinitely in “Mary and the Witch’s Flower,” an effortless animated charmer from the gifted Japanese director and Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Adapted by ...

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There’s something heartbreaking to the idea of a child who’s eager to help around the house but creates more of a mess than they end up cleaning. That’s Mary, the title character of Hiromasa ...