Katabuchi, who was assistant director to Hayao Miyazaki on “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” is best known for helming “Mai Mai Miracle” a fanciful but wispy anime of a country girl’s brush with thousand-year-old imperial history. Here, the film begins in the same playful, pastoral tone, as protagonist Suzu (voiced by Non — real name Rena Nonen of TV drama “Ama-chan”) grows up in a modest rural family in
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