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Spirited Away is a 2001 anime by Studio Ghibli that follows ten year old Chihiro. This film was picked up by Disney and redubbed in English the English was released in the U.S. in 2002. The main plot of the film is Chihiro trying to save her parents who have been turned into pigs. While it might not be as well-known as Oedipus or even Harry Potter this film is a perfect example of the hero’s journey and almost all of the stages can be seen throughout this movie. Spirited away is a great film at…

Exploring the Function of Music in Flying Sequences on Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation Film Hayao Miyazaki is a 73 year-old animation film director from Japan, who has directed 11 animation films and won lots of international awards. He deeply loves flying from his early age, so the flying sequences are quite common in his films. ("Hayao Miyazaki," 2004) There are 8 films containing “flying” in his total 11 films. These plots always come with background music, and these music becomes widespread.…

Have you ever imagined or thought about what if there existed another world; a world where magic, unknown creatures, dragons, and monsters existed? Howl’s Moving Castle is the perfect film to watch for family gatherings, especially for children or any adult who is feeling nostalgic about their childhood. What makes this film good has several factors: the plot, dialogue, music, scenery, animation, setting, story, and voice acting. Howl’s Moving Castle ,(ハウルの動く城, Hepburn: Hauru no Ugoku Shiro),…

Comparing the articles related to Hayao Miyazaki’s film Spirited Away, they not only share some similarities but also differentiate between each other. Three main similarities can be found in the articles. First of all, all the articles pay attention to interpreting characters and their references. The most popular characters are the witch Yubaba and No-face. Some interpretations are similar as well. Reider (2005) and Napier (2006) both link No-face with Noh, Japanese traditional art. The mask…

scarce, but when the traditional methods are brought to light can that still be considered as true?. When people aspire toward’s animation in today’s society, it often the bastions of traditional animation that capture the imagination, such as Studio Ghibli, founded by animator and director Hayao Miyazaki. The dedication by the company installed by it’s founder is the animator’s strive to capture the textured stroke’s and fluency as seen in hand-drawn animation and that aspiration was most…

Over the past few years I have grown to better appreciate the world of film. I love watching movies from countries all over the globe. One of my favorite genera’s of film is animation, or anime. Debatably the best animation film director of all time is Hayao Miyazaki. Central Argument/ Thesis In the article Animating child activism: Environmentalism and Class Politics in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke (1997) and Fox’s Fern Gully (1992), Michelle J. Smith and Elizabeth Parsons compare…

Spirited Away takes place in Japan. In the movie there is a human world and a spirit world. In order to get to the spirit world, one must arrive at an abandoned theme park and walk through it. When it gets dark, the spirits come out, and one is stuck in the spirit world until they find a way to get out. In the spirit world there is a bathhouse; this is where spirits are cleaned. The main character in Spirited Away is Chihiro, or Sen. At the beginning of the movie, Chihiro is shy and easily…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…

expresses how much he hates the reference. Miyazaki never wanted to produce or created anything to achieve success, but to continue to make and do what he wanted, what made him happy. Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli from just producing good films. Miyazaki’s career did not start with Studio Ghibli, however. Miyazaki was born in 1941 and began his animation career in 1963 by joining Toei Animation, and began working on the film Gulliver Travels Beyond the Moon. Miyazaki directed and released…

To Whom It May Concern: The merits of Fantasy class are just as important as other classic literature classes at a university level. The literature of fantasy read in this class teaches important lessons much like in other famous literatures. For example, a classic American literature class might read Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mocking Bird. A famous story that teaches the importance of empathy. Fantasy works can expand on the idea of empathy and draw a reader in. The story Neverwhere by Neil…