Havoc in Heaven

Animation and opera come together wonderfully in Wan Laiming’s donghua feature.

Castle in the Sky

Studio Ghibli’s sophomore effort is pure adventure from start to finish.

Slice-of-life and fantasy make strange bedfellows in Mamoru Hosoda’s touching animated drama.

Isao Takahata brings us a sweet, unassuming taste of everyday family life in this animated comedy-drama.

Black cats are bad luck in Chen Kaige’s historical fantasy mystery.

Hayao Miyazaki’s fantasy adventure takes flight but never quite stays airborne throughout.

This pleasant, unassuming drama focuses on a peculiar sort of romance.

Hayao Miyazaki’s first theatrical film is loaded with charm, wit and excitement.

In Takashi Miike’s meditative drama, the journey to finding yourself is half the fun.

Cuteness and abject horror combine once more in this sequel to the 1981 animated original

Monkey King: Hero is Back delivers solid action and has fun and with its Journey to the West premise.

Yasujiro Ozu gives us a quiet, musing mini-masterpiece about childhood in his 1932 silent comedy-drama.