Film & TVNewsWatch this cute Studio Ghibli-made advert for a Japanese convenience storeYour weekly food shop just got a whole lot cuterShareLink copied ✔️January 13, 2020Film & TVNewsTextGünseli Yalcinkaya There’s nothing more joyful than Studio Ghibli, and this animated advert for a Japanese convenience store, directed by the studio, is case and point. Titled Machi Hot Station, the 15-second, hand-drawn short depicts a regular day at a Lawson’s supermarket, packed with cute characters and pastel hued line drawings. Director Kunio Katō, best known for his 2009 animated short film, The House of Small Cubes, for which he won an Oscar, worked alongside animator Osamu Tanabe, who is best known for his work on Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. Also involved were producers Toshio Suzuki and Tomohiko Ishii, who worked on Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, respectively. Studio Ghibli kicked off the year (decade?) by revealing that it’s working on two new films this year. Co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is directing the action-adventure fantasy feature, Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka (How Do You Live?), based on Genzaburō Yoshino’s 1937 novel of the same name, which discusses how to live as human beings. Little is currently known about the second film, which was announced in the studio’s annual New Year’s message. In the meantime, the Studio Ghibli theme park is on track for its opening in 2022. Feast your eyes here. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREA guide to the radical New Wave cinema of Nagisa OshimaIra Sachs revives a lost day in the life of Peter HujarWhere is all the good transmasculine representation?Why Julia Ducournau’s Alpha is a future cult classic Fruits of her labour: 5 cult films about women at workGeena Rocero on her Lilly Wachowski-produced trans sci-fi thriller, Dolls Dhafer L’Abidine on Palestine 36, a drama set during the British MandateThis book goes deep on cult music videos and iconic adsRonan Day-Lewis on Anemone: ‘It’s obviously nepotism’Die My Love: The story behind Lynne Ramsay’s twisted, sexual fever dreamWhat went down at the Dazed Club screening of Bugonia The story behind Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos’ twisted new alien comedy