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 ...

Anime filmmaker Naoko Yamada thinks of herself as a cameraman. “I don’t think of it like anime is made by drawings,” she tells The A.V. Club. “But actual people and actual backgrounds.” ...