Tag: Hayao Miyazaki

The Wind Rises Blu-ray review (Shout Factory)

The Wind Blows is a two-hour animated historical drama feature from 2013 that takes a look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, who was a successful designer Japanese fighter planes during World War II. This was to be the last film of director Hayao Miyazaki as he had retired but wound up coming out of…


My Neighbor Totoro (Disney) Blu-ray Review

   The animated cinema of Hayao Miyazaki no longer needs an introduction. Over the last 3+ decades the man, and the studio he help created, Japan’s now famous Studio Ghibli have created a near non-stop barrage of animated classics.  They range from complex plotted mythological wonders, to simple family tales.  The one through-line between then all…