Isao Takahata

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Isao Takahata - what members say

Grave Of The Fireflies review by 77LizardKing from

Reality in animation 21 April 2011
...or creating animated masterpieces, and whith 'Grave of the Fireflies', director Isao Takahata doesn't let down the viewer. Whether a fan of Japanese animation or not, the... Read customer review

Only Yesterday review by Anto9k from Newcastle

Ghibli Greatness 18 February 2009
...o read subtitles, and the second half wishing it wouldnt end. My second film by Isao Takahata, and deserved all the kudos that Grave of Fireflies was given. This moive will ... Read customer review

My Neighbours The Yamadas on DVD (1999)
Starring: Tarou Masuoka, Yukiji Asaoka, Masako Araki
Director: Isao Takahata
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The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humourous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems and joys in their own way.

62% from 1,436 member

My Neighbours The Yamadas - Blu-ray (1999)
Starring: Tarou Masuoka, Yukiji Asaoka, Masako Araki
Director: Isao Takahata
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Based on a wildly popular Japanese comic strip, master animator Isao Takahata directs this loosely structured work about that wacky household, the Yamadas.

64% from 137 members

Pom Poko on DVD (1994)
Starring: Makoto Nonomura, Shinchou Kokontei, Yuriko Ishida
Director: Isao Takahata
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Director Isao Takahata ('Grave Of The Fireflies') and the acclaimed Japanese animation studio Ghibli are the creative forces behind the environmental fable. 'Pom Poko' ('Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pompoko'). In the woods near a rapidly growing city, a group of tanuki, (Japanese racoons), live in relative ..read more »

69% from 3,357 members

Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko (1994)
Starring: Kokondei Shinchou, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida
Director: Isao Takahata
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A community of magical shapeshifting raccoons desperately struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.

67% from 48 members
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Only Yesterday on DVD (1991)
Starring: Miki Ima, toshiro yanagiba (voice), Toshiro Yanagiba
Director: Isao Takahata
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A 27-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

68% from 2,264 members

Grave Of The Fireflies on DVD (1988)
Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Director: Isao Takahata
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A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World War II Japan, a janitor finds a metal sweet container beside a deathly ill boy. The janitor tosses the canister into the night, unwittingly beginning a ..read more »

74% from 8,335 members

Panda Go Panda! on DVD (1972)
Starring: Kazuko Sugiyama, Kazuo Kumakura, Yoshiko Ohta
Director: Isao Takahata
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Cheerful Mimiko has a very strange family for a little girl - a Panda for her Papa, and his son, Panny, calls her Mom! Join this happy family and their many adventures! When Panny follows Mimiko to school, he must pretend to be a teddy bear so Mimiko won't get into trouble, but everyone wants a ..read more »

69% from 225 members

Little Norse Prince on DVD (1968)
Starring: Hisako Okata, Etsuko Ichihara, Mikijiro Hira
Director: Isao Takahata
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Classic Japanese animated film, following the adventures of young Horus, who recovers the Sword of the Sun from the evil rock giant Moog, and who returns to his ancestral village after the death of his father to defend it from the ice demon Grundewald. On the way, he befriends the mysterious Hilda, ..read more »

60% from 753 members

My Neighbours The Yamadas - 3.0 stars
My Neighbours The Yamadas - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Pom Poko - 3.5 stars
Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko - 3.5 stars
Only Yesterday - 3.5 stars

Grave Of The Fireflies - 4.0 stars
Panda Go Panda! - 3.5 stars
Pom Poko - 3.5 stars
Only Yesterday - 3.5 stars
Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko - 3.5 stars

Akemi Yamaguchi - 3 times - show films
Tsutomu Tatsumi - 3 times - show films
Ayano Shiraishi - 3 times - show films
Yoshiko Shinohara - 3 times - show films
Norihei Miki - 2 times - show films