John Denver’s saccharine Country Roads is this film’s opening number, the sentimentality of which is steered into an uplifting and startling romance. This earned the film a recommendation from WWF. Produced before Studio Ghibli was founded in 1985, Miyazaki here sets down environmental concerns that become a staple of his later work. A psychedelic sci-fi slash fantasy-adventure influenced by Isaac Asimov and Tolkien, while also reminiscent of Star Wars. Set in a spore-infested future swarming with immense insects, this is the story of a young princess destined to return the world to its habitable state. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Optimum Releasing 11. Psychedelic sci-fi … Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. A sequel of sorts to Whisper of the Heart, this is a cat owner’s fever dream. Schoolgirl Haru is abducted by a herd of cats and coerced into marriage with a royal feline. One of Studio Ghibli’s most bizarre premises for a film (and that’s from the creators of Porco Rosso). “Ghibli” was the nickname of a second world war Italian aircraft its moustachioed designer Caproni appears in the dreams of engineer Jiro Horikoshi in this poignant animation, which captures the preciousness of life. The second of Studio Ghibli’s aviation-themed films, this is the animation house at peak visual prowess. Haunting artistically and musically, the princess’s feelings of relegation and harassment in a man’s world feel raw and, at moments, untethered in Isao Takahata’s final film. With its origin in one of Japan’s oldest manuscripts, the mythical life of Princess Kaguya (voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz for its English language dub) is illustrated in elegant, understated strokes of watercolour. Understated elegance … The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. Despite its humour, the reality of this film strikes hard. They relearn the ancient Buddhist art of shapeshifting in attempts to sabotage construction work. Riled by humans destroying their forest, a group of tanuki (racoon dogs) revolt. Pom Poko (1994)Ī tragicomedy on sweeping urban expansion, blind to the lives of other species and spirits. Featuring the voice of Saoirse Ronan, this is as heart-warming as Mary Norton’s original. Its animators delight in minuscule detail: a cup brimming with a single drop of tea, wallpaper made of leaves. Arrietty (2010)Ī homage to The Borrowers, this is Studio Ghibli’s version of the celebrated story of tiny people who “borrow” things. In memory of her ship captain father, a girl raises flags visible from the harbour, unwittingly attracting the attention of her classmate. From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)Ī film directed by Miyazaki’s son, Gorō, this study of port town Yokohama in the wake of the Korean war twists into a strange adolescent love story. Producer Toshio Suzuki has said that Miyazaki decided to come out of retirement so he could dedicate one last film to his grandson.Įarlier this year, Miyazaki’s status as one of the greatest animators of all time was further cemented by the canonization of his classics My Neighbor Totoro and Spirted Away on a list of the 100 greatest films of all time compiled every 10 years by Sight and Sound magazine - the only, and the first ever, animated films to make the list.A strange adolescent love story. Miyazaki is working on How Do You Live at a deliberately slow pace the first 36 minutes of hand-drawn animation took three years to make. But whereas the book follows a 15-year-old pondering life’s big questions in prewar Japan, the film has been described as a “big, fantastical story” and is an original work by Miyazaki, who wrote the screenplay. Miyazaki has long said the book is important to him and his films, and is apparently central to the life of the new film’s protagonist. ![]() Miyazaki had originally retired after the release of his 2013 historical drama The Wind Rises, but returned to work in 2016 to work on How Do You Live, a film inspired by - but not a direct adaptation of - a 1937 children’s novel by Yoshino Genzaburo. ![]() ![]() The studio also released some artwork from the film, a loose charcoal-and-watercolor sketch, apparently of a bird-like creature. The new feature film from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has been announced! HOW DO YOU LIVE (tentative title) opens in theaters in Japan on July 14, 2023.
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