Keiko Takeshita’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Keiko Takeshita has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Secret World of Arrietty.
Recurring themes

Fireworks
2017
Animation · Romance

Wolf Children
2012
Animation · Family

Song of the Sea
2014
Family · Animation

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- The Frozen Bond
2019
Animation · Drama

The Good Lie
2014
Drama

People Like Us
2012
Drama

Promised Land
2012
Drama

A Family Man
2016
Drama

14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family live in peaceful anonymity as they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants. However, life changes for the Clocks when a human boy discovers Arrietty.
Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi · With Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Tomokazu Miura

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.
Dir. Goro Miyazaki · With Masami Nagasawa, Junichi Okada, Keiko Takeshita

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · With Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki