Isao Takahata

A documentary that chronicles the making of The Boy and the Heron, filmed with exclusive access to Studio Ghibli across an astonishing seven years.

For his first film in fourteen years, animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of The Tale of the ...

Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.

This August 2010 NHK documentary explores the influence of selected children’s literature on Miyazaki and Takahata’s body of work and ...

From July 21 through September 10th, 2007, the Museum for Contemporary Art Tokyo held an exhibition honouring Kazuo Oga, the art director and ...

A documentary about the Ghibli Museum. It features Goro Miyazaki speaking with Isao Takahata about the “charm” of the museum and its ...

Studio Ghibli is Japan’s most successful animation studio, with helmers Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away,” “My Neighbor ...

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 promotional film by Studio Ghibli about the work on the film “The Cat Returns” (directed by Hiroyuki Morita)

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

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

A making of documentary on the Studio Ghibli film Only Yesterday

A partially-animated documentary about the preservation and restoration of the canal system in Yanagawa, Fukuoka