Film4’s Studio Ghibli Season is Here

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Film4 will be showing a total of nineteen Studio Ghibli titles over the Easter holiday, and, whether you’ve seen them before or have yet to be exposed to the Ghibli legacy, they are not to be missed. The full line up is listed below, with some titles repeated so viewers can choose their preference between English dub or subtitles:

  • Tues, 26 March at 6:30pm – Spirited Away (Subtitled)
  • Weds, 27 March at 6:05pm – Princess Mononoke (Subtitled)
  • Thurs, 28 March at 11am – The Cat Returns (Subtitled)
  • Thurs, 28 March at 4:35pm – Porco Rosso (English dub)
  • Fri, 29 March at 4:45pm – Kiki’s Delivery Service (English dub)
  • Sat, 30 March at 4:55pm – My Neighbour Totoro (English dub)
  • Sun, 31 March at 5:15pm – Arrietty (English dub)
  • Mon, 1 April at 4:35pm – Howl’s Moving Castle (English dub)
  • Tues, 2 April at 3:15pm – The Castle of Cagliostro (English dub)
  • Weds, 3 April at 2:50pm – Ponyo (English dub)
  • Thurs, 4 April at 11am – Ocean Waves (Subtitled)
  • Thurs, 4 April at 2:35pm – Pom Poko (English dub)
  • Fri, 5 April at 12:15am – Grave of the Fireflies (Subtitled)
  • Fri, 5 April at 2:40pm – Whisper of the Heart (English dub)
  • Fri, 6 April at 4:35pm – Spirited Away (English dub)
  • Sun, 7 April at 3pm – The Cat Returns (English dub)
  • Mon, 8 April at 2:25pm – Tales From Earthsea (English dub)earth
  • Tues, 9 April at 12:55pm – Only Yesterday (Subtitled)
  • Weds, 10 April at 1:10pm – Princess Mononoke (English dub)
  • Thurs, 11 April at 11am – Little Norse Prince (Subtitled)
  • Thurs, 11 April at 2:35pm – Laputa: Castle in the Sky (English dub)
  • Fri, 12 April at 12:45pm – Howl’s Moving Castle (Subtitled)
  • Sat, 13 April (time TBA) – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Subtitled)

More information is available on Film4’s website.

Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki Decorates a Jetliner for JAL

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Japan Airlines (JAL) and Studio Ghibli have unveiled the Boeing 787 jetliner decorated by Ghibli founder Hiyao Miyazaki and seven children, who were the winners of a children’s art contest at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The collaboration between Ghibli and JAL was made after the Ghibli film Porco Rosso and the art competition took place from 2007 to 2008 to decorate the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner. However, Boeing delayed the delivery of the aircraft by five years and JAL filed for bankruptcy in 2010, the airline therefore had to wait until now to unveil the designs, which were part of its Sora o Tobu (Fly the Skies) Project. 

As part of its Fly the Skies Project, JAL flights will screen Porco Rosso and the rare 2002 animated short by Miyazaki, Kūsō no Sora Tobu Kikai-tachi (The Machines that Fly the Skies of Dreams). The short is not only directed Miyazaki, but is also narrated by him.