Mari Okada can make anime fans cry with a drop of a pen, and she's created several beautiful stories that easily leaves audiences in tears.

Last month, Mari Okada, the prolific anime writer, made some kind of history, when it was announced that Japan's public broadcaster had commissioned a movie based on her best-selling autobiography ...

Mari Okada, one of the most prolific screenwriters in Japan’s animation industry, has penned the stories for upwards of four dozen animated projects for screens both big and small, including ...

Directed by Hiroyasu Ishida, ‘Drifting Home’ is the third full-length film to come from Studio Colorido, which was also behind the anime adaptation of ‘Penguin Highway’ and Mari Okada’s ...

Screenwriter, author and newly minted anime director Mari Okada shrugs and smiles as she and her entourage burst through a door behind me 15 minutes late for our meeting.

From Sailor Moon director Junichi Satoh and Anohana writer Mari Okada comes A Whisker Away, an anime film about love, magic, and cats premiering globally June 18th.

Written and directed by prolific manga artist Mari Okada, Netflix’s Maboroshi is a Japanese fantasy anime in which an environmental disaster traps a small-town community in a bizarre time freeze.

Anime screenwriter turned director Mari Okada won Shanghai’s animation competition for 'Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms,' a tale about an immortal young girl who becomes foster mother to ...