[3WR] ホーホケキョ となりの山田くん / My Neighbours the Yamadas (1999)

 

 ホーホケキョ となりの山田くん    My Neighbours the Yamadas[link to netflix]  

Released: 17 July 1999 (104 min)

Director: Isao Takahata

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

One hot mess

Family muses amuses

Repetitive forgetfulness anecdotes

Sketches Four Framing

Granny gets grouchy

Watercoloured Familial Sitcom.

Dad's a pillock

[3WR] 言の葉の庭 / The Garden Of Words (2013)

 言の葉の庭    The Garden Of Words[link to netflix]  

Released: 31 May 2013 (46 min)

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Producer: Noritaka Kawaguchi

As part of Ghibli Club Gaiden [ジブリクラブ外伝], we have decided to have a "rest week" which allows people to catch up and we also have an optional side film that is Ghibli adjacent. Each person also submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list?

Reviews:

Check the crep

Boy cobbles dream.

grooming by rain

Pray for rain

Shinjuku fears parked

Rainy Shoe Rendezvous

  

[3WR] もののけ姫 / Princess Mononoke (1997)

 もののけ姫    Princess Mononoke[link to netflix]  

Released: 12 July 1997 (133 min)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Animals against deforestation

Poor, ugly, beautiful 

Keep your head

Supernatural Boar War

Raise your hands!

Boar hunting mishap

Wolves (F)ighting (C)onsumption

Fantastically animated action

[3WR] 耳をすませば / Whisper of the Heart (1995)

 

耳をすませば    Whisper of the Heart[link to netflix]  

Released: 15 July 1995 (111 min)

Director: Yoshifumi Kondō

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Ghibli's Youthful Spirit

Brilliant Baron Begins!

Hewn from rock

Library of Love

Baron concrete road

Storytelling ignites academics

Smitten kitten written

[3WR] 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ / Pom Poko (1994)

 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ    Pom Poko[link to netflix]  

Released: 16 July 1994 (119 min)

Director: Isao Takahata

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Scrotum to totem

Troublesome tanuki tragedy

Testes and trees

Romanticised conservatism bollocks

All for Tanuki

Ballsy extinction rebellion 

Doubly on display

 

[3WR] 海がきこえる / Ocean Waves (1993)

 

 海がきこえる    Ocean Waves[link to netflix]  

Released: 05 May 1993 (73 min)

Director: Tomomi Mochizuki

Producer: Toshio Suzuki

As part of Ghibli Club, each person submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list? 

Reviews:

Splits to Kochi

Separated by JRLine

Individualism breeds discontent

Bathtub bed abides

Exploitative love abound

Friends fight fervently

Romanticising Toxic Relationships

 

[3WR] 君の名は。 / Your Name. (2016)

 君の名は。    Your Name.[link to netflix]  

Released: 16 August 2016 (107 min)

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Producer: Kōichirō Itō

As part of Ghibli Club Gaiden [ジブリクラブ外伝], we have decided to have a "rest week" which allows people to catch up and we also have an optional side film that is Ghibli adjacent. Each person also submits a 3-word review [3WR] for the film after watching. Why not send yours to add to the list?

As it happens, Your Name is actually a film that I have already blogged about and that is here too.

Reviews:

Mitsuha san's frontiers

Musubi via boobie(s) 

Celestial Freaky Friday 

Temporal Transformational Romance

Sliding doors moments

Embrace the change