Isao Takahata

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The ...

On a trip to the countryside to pick safflowers, a young Japanese woman recalls her life when she was ten years old. Original title: おもひでぽろぽろ (1991)

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 ...