![]() ![]() The film shifts the setting to a Japanese coastal town, where a lonely and troubled foster child, Anna, has been sent to stay with relatives. ![]() Clearly the studio responds to a certain kind of heartfelt, un-ironic writing for children. Like other Ghibli films such as Howl’s Moving Castle and Arrietty, the movie is taken from a classic English children’s book, this time Joan Robinson’s Norfolk fantasy adventure from 1967. It is another example of Ghibli’s Anglophilia: a prominent and under-analysed part of its identity. This lovely animation from 2014 was Studio Ghibli’s last film before its self-imposed hiatus following the retirement of founder Hayao Miyazaki. ![]()
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