Animated films are some of the first pieces of fictional storytelling that young audiences are exposed to, having a deep impact on new generations' understanding of how narratives can impact them. The best animated movies, the ones that resonate with children and adults alike, are the ones that are able to entertain audiences young and old with stories that hide deeper meaning under the surface.
A few animated films were able to appear on Roger Ebert's coveted Great Movies list, a collection of a few hundred films that he felt stood the test of time and would remain important pieces of movie history. These animated films are the ones that best capture the human experience and deep emotional truths through one of the oldest mediums in the history of film.
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A few animated films were able to appear on Roger Ebert's coveted Great Movies list, a collection of a few hundred films that he felt stood the test of time and would remain important pieces of movie history. These animated films are the ones that best capture the human experience and deep emotional truths through one of the oldest mediums in the history of film.
Finding Nemo Is an Early Pixar Classic
After the boom of the Disney Renaissance, the powerhouse animation studio that...
- 2/27/2025
- by Alexander Martin
- CBR
Studio Ghibli films are known for their rich cast of characters, and what makes Ghibli characters so fascinating is how different each of them is. Diverse, well-written antagonists are just as important as the role of a protagonist, and Ghibli antagonists come in various personalities that make each film unique.
Each villain has their own moral compass and worldview, which shapes their decisions and what their goals are. Not all the goals are evil though. Some goals are based on a desire to protect, such as Fujimoto's desire to protect Ponyo, but many of them come from the willingness to control or harm, such as Muska's entitlement to power. Regardless of their motive, these antagonists shape the film in a great way to challenge the protagonists and leave viewers to think about their own morals.
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Each villain has their own moral compass and worldview, which shapes their decisions and what their goals are. Not all the goals are evil though. Some goals are based on a desire to protect, such as Fujimoto's desire to protect Ponyo, but many of them come from the willingness to control or harm, such as Muska's entitlement to power. Regardless of their motive, these antagonists shape the film in a great way to challenge the protagonists and leave viewers to think about their own morals.
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- 12/1/2024
- by Joanna Nguyen
- CBR
Following the TV anime series and a short anime film produced by Toei Animation, a live-action film adaptation of Reiko Hiroshima's children fantasy novel series Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendo is set to release in Japan on December 13, 2024. The short anime film was screened as a part of the omnibus film festival Toei Manga Matsuri in August 2020, then the TV anime series has aired on Nhk Educational TV since September of the year. Hideo Nakata , best known for the international success of his Ring horror film franchise, is attached to direct on a screenplay by Reiko Yoshida . And ex-Takarazuka star Yuki Amami is cast as the protagonist, Beniko, the owner of Zenitendo. The film's official website also opens today, revealing a teaser trailer and visual featuring Amami as Beniko. Teaser visual The fantasy novel series featuring illustrations by jyajya has been published for 20 volumes by Kaiseisha since May 2013, printing more than 8.5 million copies worldwide.
- 6/6/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Mary and the Witch’s Flower Trailer 3 Hiromasa Yonebayashi‘s Mary and the Witch’s Flower / Meari to majo no hana (2017) movie trailer 3 stars Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami, Fumiyo Kohinata, and Hikari Mitsushima. Mary and the Witch’s Flower‘s plot synopsis: based on the book by Mary Stewart, “It is [...]
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- 6/12/2017
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
See the first poster from Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" (a.k.a. "Gake no ue no Ponyo") helmed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. The animated family adventure first came out in Japan last year and will see limited areas on the 14th of August on U.S. soil. Japanese language cast includes Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Jôji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yuki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima, Akiko Yano and Shinichi Hatori. The English cast stars Cate Blanchett, Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, Madison Davenport, Cloris Leachman, Frankie Jonas, Lily Tomlin and Betty White. ...
- 5/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the first poster from Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" (a.k.a. "Gake no ue no Ponyo") helmed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. The animated family adventure first came out in Japan last year and will see limited areas on the 14th of August on U.S. soil. Japanese language cast includes Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Jôji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yuki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima, Akiko Yano and Shinichi Hatori. The English cast stars Cate Blanchett, Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, Madison Davenport, Cloris Leachman, Frankie Jonas, Lily Tomlin and Betty White.
- 5/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See the first poster from Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" (a.k.a. "Gake no ue no Ponyo") helmed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. The animated family adventure first came out in Japan last year and will see limited areas on the 14th of August on U.S. soil. Japanese language cast includes Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, Jôji Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Yuki Amami, Kazushige Nagashima, Akiko Yano and Shinichi Hatori. The English cast stars Cate Blanchett, Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, Madison Davenport, Cloris Leachman, Frankie Jonas, Lily Tomlin and Betty White.
- 5/6/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Inugami
People fall in love with the wrong people all the time. But Miki Bonomiya, a character played by Yuki Amami in Masato Harada's "Inugami", sets a record for really bad choices. It would reveal too many surprises to explain the forbidden nature of her two romances. Let's just say they produce disturbing dreams, family ghosts, stark tragedies, mysterious fogs and angry forest gods in a remote mountain village on the island of Shikoku.
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/8/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Inugami
People fall in love with the wrong people all the time. But Miki Bonomiya, a character played by Yuki Amami in Masato Harada's "Inugami", sets a record for really bad choices. It would reveal too many surprises to explain the forbidden nature of her two romances. Let's just say they produce disturbing dreams, family ghosts, stark tragedies, mysterious fogs and angry forest gods in a remote mountain village on the island of Shikoku.
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Drenched in Japanese mysticism and a plot that teeters on the ridiculous, "Inugami" is too marginal to enjoy much exposure outside its native country other than at film festivals. But evocative, moody art direction and graceful, sweeping camera movements do please the eye. It is playing in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Working from the book by Masako Bando, writer-director Harada plops us down in an enchanted village, where generations of women in the Bonomiya family watch over an urn that contains the Inugami, which are wild dog gods. The appearance of a 25-year-old schoolteacher, Akira (Atsuro Watabe), not only stirs feelings in the heart of the spinster Miki but also riles the gods in the urn. Soon, nightmares plague the villagers, and deaths take place. With each tragedy, Miki grows younger, arousing village animosity and triggering vows of revenge against her accursed family.
Harada plays the supernatural tale amid lush forests of ancient cedar trees and a traditional house, where Miki makes exquisite paper using the old-fashioned method of mixing plants, water and glue. Junichi Fujisawa's camera seeks high places from which to spin above or swoop down on these ill-fated people.
The movie is quite a ride, but all that is likely to haunt the minds of moviegoers are the dark and glorious settings. Amami and Watabe's passion and couplings have erotic charge, and the actors make the incredible feel credible. But one must possess a deep love of Eastern mysticism to get anything else out of this fantasy-horror-thriller.
INUGAMI
An Asmik Ace Entertainment production
Producer: Masato Hara
Screenwriter-director: Masato Harada
Based on the book by: Masako Bando
Director of photography: Junichi Fujisawa
Production designer: Hisao Inagaki
Music: Takatsugu Muramatsu
Editor: Soichi Ueno
Color/stereo
Cast:
Miki Bonomiya: Yuki Amami
Akira Nutahara: Atsuro Watabe
Takanao Bonomiya: Kenichi Yajima
Momoyo Bonomiya: Kanako Fukaura
Seiji Doi: Eugene Harada
Rika Bonomiya: Myu Watase
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/14/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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