It was hard to imagine Hayao Miyazaki, the genius world-builder, the man obsessed with motion, building a place so oddly still. He would have built a rollicking theme park. In fact, Toshio Suzuki ...

When Hayao Miyazaki’s last feature film ... changed forever by war—but by the time he reaches the hospital, the building has collapsed, killing his mother. A year passes, and the fiercely ...

The point is, it’s hard to say with any certainty whether this will truly be the moment when Hayao Miyazaki steps away ... heron and an old abandoned stone building in the woods nearby ...

The first sound in Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie ... Mahito running toward the building, then being held back as flames consume the entire screen, overwhelming any chance of saving his mother.

As the classic image of Totoro against a bright blue backdrop glowed on the screen, I couldn’t help but be reminded that “The Boy and the Heron” was the last movie that Hayao ... Miyazaki seems to use ...