2016’s Your Name wasn’t the first project from director Makoto Shinkai, but it was his first huge success, becoming the third highest-grossing anime film internationally and establishing him as a ...

The magic of animated filmmaking creates many opportunities for characterization and storytelling that are unavailable in live-action. Through the combination of moving drawings and voiceover acting, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Admirers of the gifted Japanese writer-director Makoto Shinkai will recognize his touch from the opening moments of his often ...

Marco Vito Oddo is a writer, journalist, and amateur game designer. Passionate about superhero comic books, horror films, and indie games, he formally worked as a Senior Writer for Collider. When he's ...

Suzume follows in the vein of Shinkai’s most recent films as the otherworldly drama brings romance and adventure to its forefront. We meet a high school student named Suzume who lives a quiet life in ...

Margarida Bastos is a native Portuguese writer with an avid interest in gaming, anime, theatre, books, film and TV. Essentially, everything that has to do with the multifaceted nature and fascinating ...

"Time is a sleeper, wind the soft skin, star is a cradle, people are mirage." Japan's Toho studio has debuted a new full-length official trailer for Suzume no Tojimari, the latest from acclaimed ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Called Suzume no Tojimari, which roughly translates to Suzume’s ...