Although 1953’s ‘Tokyo Story’ (Tokyo Monogatari 東京物語) is Ozu Yasujiro’s (小津安次郎) most well-known movie, my favorite is 1949’s ‘Late Spring’ (Banshun 晩春) starring Ozu’s longtime collaborators Ryu Chishu (笠智衆) and Hara Setsuko (原節子). Ryu plays a widower who lives with his daughter who is around thirty. They respect and adore each other greatly and both …

So I finally got to see Ponyo
, the most recent film from Miyazaki Hayao.
This is another one of those movies about fish wanting to become human; enter Splash, the made for TV Splash Too, Mermaids (oh wait, that was Cher pretending to act… well she wore a mermaid outfit), and of course The …