

EPISODE
Mary and the Witch's Flower (Meari to majo no hana) [Sub: Eng]
The story tells of a powerful adventure of anime girl called Mary. Mary was living with her great aunt Charlotte with no friends or adventures in her life. Mary was alone until she decided to follow a strange cat in the next forest, so she discovered Fly-by-Night flower, a rare plant that blossoms only once every seven years there. Mary will move to the clouds by those things for learn the magic in the school of the magic managed by Mumblechook and Dr. Dee.
















28 June 1961, Tokyo, Japan

24 March 1939, Urmston, Manchester, England, UK

17 July 1957, Tokyo, Japan

1985, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK

8 August 1967, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan


30 November 1985, Okinawa, Japan


19 May 1993, Saitama, Japan


5 October 1975, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK


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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.
September 10, 2018
The legacy of the [Hayao Miyazaki] is in good hands. [Full review in Spanish]
January 18, 2018
It shows tremendous promise, even if the movie exists so obviously at the mercy of its influences, and Yonebayashi at his.
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
What Mary and the Witch's Flower lacks in dimensionality, it makes up for in wonderment.
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.
January 18, 2018
A gentle, sweet story, told with painterly artistry.
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 20, 2018
The animators invoke worlds upon worlds in Mary and the Witch's Flower.
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.