NOT A HOTEL AOSHIMA has expanded its beachfront retreat in Miyazaki with two new villas, CHILL 2.0 and COAST. The new ...

After walking for a while, I arrived at the izakaya I had been aiming for. Thanks to it being a bit early, there were seats available even though I hadn't made a reservation, and I was shown to the ...

Heading to Aoshima Shrine in rainy Miyazaki. Is the entire island a sanctuary!? Discovering wonders and trivia in a land where myths come alive. This time, I visited Aoshima Shrine, one of Miyazaki ...

Jeremy has more than 2700 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

We head to the northern and southern corners of Japan to chat to the newcomers who have escaped the big-city bustle and the locals who simply wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Newcomers are helping a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hot animation director John Aoshima (Ultraman: Rising) has entered into an exclusive multi-year overall development deal with Bill Damaschke’s Warner Bros. Pictures Animation in feature ...

In a bitter irony, people around the world are using OpenAI’s GPT‑4o model to generate images in the style of legendary Japanese animator and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, who for his entire career has ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. A child is spirited away into a whimsical world populated ...

Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary animator and director, had intended to retire from filmmaking when he began work on The Boy and the Heron — but that had never stopped him before. The Boy and the Heron ...

Whether referring to an A.I.-driven animation demo as “an insult to life itself,” walking out of a movie directed by his own son (“It feels like I was sitting there for about three hours”), or ...