Isao Takahata Movies

A documentary that focuses on Hayao Miyazaki’s deep connection to nature and the environmental themes expressed through his films.

A documentary produced by NHK following the production of "The Boy & The Heron" over 7 years.

In this documentary we travel to the Swiss Alps and to the Canadian Prince Edward Island looking at the origins of the two classic TV series - Heidi,...

A contemporary look at the creation and evolution of Studio Ghibli, from ‘The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun’ (1968) to...

A making of documentary on the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday

Heidi leaves her beloved Alm and moves to Frankfurt, where she finds a new good friend in Clara. Aunt Dete wants Heidi to leave her grandfather on...

This documentary by Hubert Niogret looks at the revival of Japanese cinema during the 1990s.

One day, Kandume's can boy, who happily lived with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is discarded. Eventually, he has a dream...

Aki Asakura, an actress who played the voice of Princess Kaguya, travels around Japan to visit the scenery that appeared in Takahata's work. The...

Yasuo Ōtsuka was the mentor of Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, the man who taught them to feel the joy of animation. As the supervising...

A short documentary dedicated to |sao Takahata, composed of archive images, released following his death in April 2018.

Compilation Film from the series Wolf Boy Ken by Yoshio Kuroda & Isao Takahata.

Compilation film of the second half of the series Heidi: Girl of the Alps.

A documentary film following Isao Takahata to Canada to meet Frédéric Back.

The story of Au Aurka is set in the hinterland of Tokyo in the eighties. The protagonists are two girls who have a dream that then becomes reality....

A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in Toys and Plush by Diecast Stories team of...

NHK documentary about "Grave of the Fireflies" and 7 notebooks written by Isao Takahata that were found after his death. The film was based on a...

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe,...