EPISODE
Mary and the Witch's Flower (Meari to majo no hana) [Sub: Eng]
This story tells about new and exciting events of the animation. It is the story of Marry, an animation girl who lives with her aunt in the city. Marry didn't have friends in her life, and that may effects on her life. Suddenly, Marry meets a cat in the forest, and that may be the first step to transform her life. Marry is the girl that knew the Fly-by-Night flower, a rare plant that blossoms only once every seven years and only in that forest. Finally, the flower and the broomstick whisk Mary above the cloud for going to the school of the magic in the sky directed by Mumblechook and Dr. Dee.
17 July 1957, Tokyo, Japan
19 May 1993, Saitama, Japan
1971, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
24 March 1939, Urmston, Manchester, England, UK
18 August 1965, Tokyo, Japan
28 June 1961, Tokyo, Japan
1985, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK
September1961, Flushing, Cornwall, England, UK
8 August 1967, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan
January 5, 1955 in Yamagata, Japan
16 July 2004, Knutsford, Cheshire, England, UK
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
30 November 1985, Okinawa, Japan
23 January 1972, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
September 10, 2018
The legacy of the [Hayao Miyazaki] is in good hands. [Full review in Spanish]January 18, 2018
With Mary and the Witch's Flower, [Studio Ponoc has] come both too close and not close enough, resulting in an adventure that can never climb out of the uncanny valley it digs for itself.January 18, 2018
The spell Mr. Yonebayashi casts is effective, but also ephemeral. It's minor magic.September 07, 2018
On its own merits, the film is an enchanting diversion, but director Hiromasa Yonebayashi... spends too much time reminding us of Ghibli's greatest hits instead of attempting to craft his own masterpiece.December 11, 2018
It's a very loose adaptation of the book, as was Howl's Moving Castle and Arrietty, but there's charm in the mix of English kid-lit tropes and the sort of wild imagination cultivated in Japanese animation.January 20, 2018
The animators invoke worlds upon worlds in Mary and the Witch's Flower.January 18, 2018
It shows tremendous promise, even if the movie exists so obviously at the mercy of its influences, and Yonebayashi at his.October 16, 2018
An entertaining and friendly personal journey with classicism in precepts about personal worth, ambition and respect for nature. [Full Review in Spanish]September 04, 2018
There is only one Miyazaki, and his disciple insists on reminding us. [Full review in Spanish]January 18, 2018
What Mary and the Witch's Flower lacks in dimensionality, it makes up for in wonderment.September 07, 2018
Mary and the Witch's Flower shows that Yonebayashi knows, as Alfred Hitchcock would say, how to start a movie with an earthquake (in this case, an earthquake of sensations, pure kinetic energy and constant plastic invention). [Full Review in Spanish]January 18, 2018
A gentle, sweet story, told with painterly artistry.