Animation director Naoko Yamada returns with 'The Colors Within,' a lively portrait of three teenagers with a shared desire ...

In the animated worlds meticulously crafted by Japanese director Naoko Yamada, however, life moves gloriously, realistically slow. Schoolchildren walk at a measured pace, pausing outside their ...

With the release of her latest film, The Colors Within, we dive into the must-watch films and anime series of director Naoko ...

It is directed by Naoko Yamada, whose work in anime series (“K-On!”) and films (“A Silent Voice,” “Liz and the Blue Bird”) has established her as one of the medium’s most distinctive ...

Kids movies so often bear little of the actual lived-in experience of growing up, but Naoko Yamada's luminous anime “The Colors Within” gently reverberates with the doubts and yearnings of young life.

Box Office Mojo lists that The Colors Within (Kimi no Iro), the latest anime feature film by Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada, ranked #16 and earned US$378,022 in its opening weekend in the ...

With such successful, vivid dramas as A Silent Voice (2016) and Liz and the Blue Bird (2018), Naoko Yamada has become arguably the leading female director of anime in an industry still largely ...