‘Hayao Miyazaki Films’ Archives
Joe Hisaishi – Piano Story
Joe Hisaishi is already well known in the world, but still especially among anime fans or Hayao Miyazaki film fans. If you have never experienced Japanese music, not Japanese modern pop music but a Japanese real composer's music, please try Joe Hisaishi first of all. There is a truth of talent, and existence of genius, inside Joe Hisaishi. [...]
Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki
Howl's Moving Castle Animation HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE is one of the representing works of master animator, Hayao Miyazaki. This film still has the 2nd highest grossing record of Japanese whole movie history, as a reference, NO.1 movie is also by Hayao Miyazai, it's Spirited Away. And If I say more, NO.3 is again by the same director, Hayao [...]
JOE HISAISHI – ENCORE
If you are a Joe Hisaishi fan, or if you like Hayao Miyazaki's movies, this CD is a top recommendation. Joe Hisaishi has released many CDs in the past, but in focusing Ghibli concerned music or movie music, many fans in Japan pick up this CD as Hisaishi's best. JOE HISAISHI -ENCORE- has reputed very high and the songs in this CD is real [...]
PONYO ON THE CLIFF and ASTROBOY to Academy Award ?
Today's news says that Academy Award nominates selection chose Ponyo on the Cliff and Atom or Astroboy in English title as pre-selected works. This means they might be nominated in Academy Award of Animated films category, so this is still in the stage of choosing the NOMINATED works. They are not even nominated yet. So this news is probably [...]
Spirited Away Music & Story
Spirited away needs us to understand some traditional Japanese superstition or myth. As the story goes by, it's becoming harder for us to understand the total background of the story. Maybe Mr. Miyazaki doesn't want us to understand it all because it's a utterly different cultures even in Japan between now and then, or today and ancient [...]
Porko Rosso
Porco Rosso's original title in Japanese is Kurenaino Buta, which means Red Pig. Also the Porco Rosso means a red pig in Italian, but it seems a word of insult sense. The leading role character is a man who was forced to be a red pig by magic. This story is based on Miyazaki's faith that a man should live like this. It's very romantic and adult [...]
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kiki's Delivery Service was released in 1989 in Japan. The previous movie, TOTORO, was also a family type animated movie and this Kiki's Delivery Service followed the same line. Personally I like Castle in the sky or Nausicaa of the valley of the winds first of all because the message and dream of people are fantastic. However, most of family [...]
Princess Mononoke
PRINCESS MONONOKE still has the 3rd box record in Japanese cinema history ( NO1. is Sprited away and 2nd is Howl's moving castle ). From this work, Miyazaki became the carismatic movie director, not only a magical animation producer. Princess Mononoke has a strong theme or message to today's society. In that sense, PRINCESS MONONOKE is often [...]
Spirited Away, the highest grossed movie of all time
SPIRITED AWAY may be the most famous movie of Miyazaki animation in the world because this one took Academy award, Gold Award at Berlin Film Festival, and a number of awards both in Japan and in the world. In this sense, Spirited Away is the highest achievement of Miyazaki works. If you know Miyazaki animation works, you might be thinking that [...]
New Era of Animation by Nausicaa of the valley of the wind
Nausciaa of the valley of the wind is a strong impact movie with solid messages to modern world. I think Mr. Miyazaki's utopia and ruins of heart are both staying here. He is probably disappointed with the technology society that has no attention to nature in this world, and he has a strong desire to bring the utopia back to this [...]
