Ocean waves ghibli blu ray12/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The 1993 Ocean Waves was the first Ghibli film not directed by either Miyazaki or Isao, and the studio's first film produced specifically for television. Less traumatic but every bit as involving is his 1991 Only Yesterday, a simple but bewitching story of an unmarried career woman who returns to her rural roots and rediscovers her childhood self, one whose realism, sense of place and attention to detail delighted a Japanese friend of mine who grew up in just such a district and has infrequently embarked on her own journeys into the rural past. If you've never seen it then I implore you to hunt it out – it is, quite simply, the most emotionally devastating animated film I've ever seen. ![]() ![]() Being reality rather than fantasy based, Isao's work is less widely seen outside of Japan, but that didn't stop his 1988 Grave of the Fireflies from finding a small but passionate international audience. The studio's international reputation was secured largely on the back of Miyazaki's thematically complex and richly imaginative fantasy works such as Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, the Oscar-winning Spirited Away, and the glorious My Neighbour Totoro, whose title character became the studio's logo. Initially, all of its films were directed by two of its co-founders, Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao, though one of its most celebrated and standard-setting works, Miyazaki's 1984 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, was made a year before studio's formation so is technically not a Ghibli film at all, despite its regular appearance in Ghibli DVD collections worldwide. Studio Ghibli is one of the few animation production houses whose name is internationally known outside of industry circles, a badge of quality that carries with it specific expectations for style and storytelling. A UK region 2 DVD review of OCEAN WAVES / UMI GA KIKOERU by Slarek ![]()
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