Many animation studios have an amusing tendency for connecting their films together. Pixar, for example, has the ever-popular "Pixar Theory" that sets every major film on a cohesive timeline, while Disney inserts fun easter eggs from their previous movies into every new production. The anime community's beloved Studio Ghibli has formed a bridge between two of its tragically underrated movies (Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns) by using a pair of minor yet important characters: Baron and Muta.
Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns were both released in July just seven years apart, with the former directed by the late Yoshifumi Kondo (whom many claim could have carried Ghibli into a new era) in 1995 and the latter by Hiroyuki Morita in 2002. Despite having different directors and telling vastly different stories, the characters of Baron and Muta are both recognizable figures that create a significant connection between the two timeless films.
Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns were both released in July just seven years apart, with the former directed by the late Yoshifumi Kondo (whom many claim could have carried Ghibli into a new era) in 1995 and the latter by Hiroyuki Morita in 2002. Despite having different directors and telling vastly different stories, the characters of Baron and Muta are both recognizable figures that create a significant connection between the two timeless films.
- 11/27/2024
- by Rosa Perez
- CBR
A teaser site has been launched for Takeshi Furusawa‘s upcoming live-action adaptation of Yukito Ayatsuji’s horror novel Another. With the site comes a cryptic teaser trailer and a cast list which adds Ai Kato and Yoshihiko Hakamada to the previously announced leads, Ai Hashimoto and Kento Yamazaki.
Yamazaki plays a 15-year-old boy named Koichi Sakakibara who’s forced to move to a suburban town in the mountains called Yomiyama to live with his grandparents in the spring of 1998. One day he suffers a seizure brought on by a chronic lung condition and collapses, but luckily he’s taken to the hospital in time to save his life. While in recovery at the hospital, he sees a beautiful girl wearing an eye patch (Hashimoto) and becomes fixated on her before she makes an odd remark about the morgue on the second floor and leaves suddenly.
He meets up with...
Yamazaki plays a 15-year-old boy named Koichi Sakakibara who’s forced to move to a suburban town in the mountains called Yomiyama to live with his grandparents in the spring of 1998. One day he suffers a seizure brought on by a chronic lung condition and collapses, but luckily he’s taken to the hospital in time to save his life. While in recovery at the hospital, he sees a beautiful girl wearing an eye patch (Hashimoto) and becomes fixated on her before she makes an odd remark about the morgue on the second floor and leaves suddenly.
He meets up with...
- 3/4/2012
- Nippon Cinema
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