Masaaki Yuasa’s “Lu Over the Wall” blends elements of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” Hayao Miyazaki’s “Ponyo” and alienated teen stories into a quirky, highly personal film unlike ...

Quickly it becomes clear that there is virtually nothing Lu can’t do. She can manipulate water, lifting it into the air in giant cubes that enable her to fly nearly as well as she can swim. When music ...

Japanese auteur Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Ping Pong, The Tatami Galaxy) directed not one, but two animated features that will be released in spring 2017. The newly announced Lu Over the Wall (Yoake ...

Masaaki Yuasa, an animator, directed two animation films for two months in succession: "Night Is Short, Walk On Girl" (夜は短し歩けよ乙女 / Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome), based on the novel written by ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Lu Over the Wall is an almost criminally enjoyable Japanese animated feature. It mixes its components like a ...

Japanese animation cleaned up major jury plaudits at Saturday's awards ceremony, with the host country not far off the pace; ‘Loving Vincent’ scoops audience award French and Japanese animation left ...

Is the hair made of water, the fish are swimming. When Rou moves his head to the left, his hair spreads like "Puyo Puyon", and inside it continues to swim like a fish seems to mind nothing. Of course, ...

Masaaki Yuasa’s “Lu Over the Wall” blends elements of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” Hayao Miyazaki’s “Ponyo” and alienated teen stories into a quirky, highly personal film unlike ...