Hayao Miyazaki

carefully, the answer is interesting. If the witch has a white cat, how come she stealth herself in the forest? The white hair of the white cat will stick on her gown and expose her appearance. Japan has a very famous animation producer, his name is Miyazaki Hayao who has been producing a bunch of popular animated movie. One of his works is called “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, the main character Kiki is a thirteen-year-old witch, who leaves the home for a year, and during this time, she needs to be…

clean it was. My dad told me that we are close to one of many fish market in Tokyo. The next day and forward, we went to a Ghibli Museum, where we saw many art pieces from Laputa, Spirited Away, Totoro, and more, all made by an animator named Hayao Miyazaki. Japan is very famous for creating japanese cartoons called anime. I am a big fan of this as well as my friends who knows ghibli films or anime. After we finished looking around at the museum, we went to a workshop where my dad used to…

run wild. Seeing magical creatures like a kind majestic beast, to a cat bus that has headlights as eyes seems too surreal. The movie takes you to a whole new world where you can find adventure through the eyes of two imaginative girls. Director, Hayao Miyazaki made this anime movie one of the best children’s movie I’ve ever seen. This movie had so many different morals behind it. The first moral I caught onto was how different everything can be moving from a more city-like location, to a more…

Nausicaä firmly believes in finding another way in her post-apocalyptic environment where the natural environment becomes toxic and the human race must find new ways of adapting. Hayao Miyazaki created the Sea of Corruption with was the primary threat, from a real place that represented desolation on earth (Miyazaki 149). Beginning with the Nausicaä foraging through this and finding amu’s shell and her excitement for it use for her community back home provides an example of cohabitation The…

Concerts have always been a way for the general public to experience their favorite artists and musicians perform right in front of them. I myself have been to several concerts, all of which have been rap and hip hop concerts. So going to an orchestral concert was going to be a very different experience to me. I know that there wasn’t going to be any mosh pits or excessive screaming of fans throwing themselves onto the performers. With all that in mind, I was mentally preparing myself for a very…

As presented in the movie Spirited Away, Chihiro is faced with the journey of growing into adulthood. What starts as a story of a little girl faced with the difficulty of moving to a new school, turns into a coming of age story as Chihiro realizes she must conquer many challenges on her own in order to save her family. She is forced to cope with being taken away from her friend, while thrown into a new setting. When she finds herself in a new world and separated from her parents, she begins to…

Kwang-hyun uses not only technical camera movements and graphics to explain these themes, but he also incorporates symbolism and thoughtful timing in dialogue, presentation, and delivery. Park Kwang-hyun has a cinematic style all his own. Although Hayao Miyazaki inspired his film, there are clear differences in not only color but also in the composition of each shot. Park uses the vertigo effect often to bring drastic attention to a character, for example during the Boar hunting scene.…

ADOLESCENT GIRLS’ STRUGGLES IN FANTASY WORLDS: CORALINE AND SPIRITED AWAY ON SELF, FAMILY AND GROWING UP INTRODUCTION The films Coraline (2009) and Spirited Away (original Japanese title: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, “Sen and Chihiro’s Spiriting Away”, 2001) comes from producers with different cultural backgrounds. Despite being intended for younger audiences, both films, which revolves around the fantasy genre, are uniquely presented in such a way that is shrouded in mystery and uncanniness…

however, the two coexisting realms have the ability to influence each other. In the natural world, humans often tend to disregard the conservation of the environment around them. Instead, they become fixated on desires stemmed from greed. Director, Hayao Miyazaki demonstrates many instances of the idea of environmentalism in our world, in his film Spirited Away, as well as how it relates to the popular japanese concept of spirits. The movie Spirited Away utilizes environmental imagery as a…

rising and falling action because it always happens, but in “my neighbor Totoro” never had one so initially you never knew what was going to happen. You wanted to watch it to see if there was ever going to be one, even though there was never one. Hayao Miyazaki says “you could call it a ghost story.” It was a hard review but it is true because the movie did not have any scenes that really captured your attention and made you get into it. But that did not bother me. It was very easy for me to…