6.5
… when it leans into both its intentional and unintentional insanity, it’s surprisingly fun.
“According to the tradition of Chinese ancestral veneration, living family members of the deceased have a responsibility to care for their family’s ghosts, and pay tribute to them by putting
… has the emotional nuance, velvety animation, and joyously fruity world-building that makes Ghibli a force to be reckoned with even after all these years (along with another stellar English
The acclaimed director of Grave of the Fireflies has passed at the age of 82.
...more a curiosity than an attractive film in its own right...
...this is the sort of film that demonstrates just now versatile animation can be...
All the best from Japan's biggest whimsy factory.