‘Hayao Miyazaki Films’ Archives
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 [...]
Lupin the 3rd, Castle of Cagliostro
Lupin the 3rd; The Castle of Cagliostro is the first film of Mr. Hayao Miyazaki as a film director. But this is shared with the other person as directors, also the basic idea, LUPIN the 3rd, was the other people's original. In general, this is not regarded as a 100% pure Hayao Miyazaki Movie. Many people in Japan say the first one is Nausicaa of [...]
Nausicaa of the valley of the wind
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is Mr.Hayao Miyazaki's first theater animation ever made. He was working at a production company at the time and he was making comic books for Nausicaa's basic works before making film. Maybe he was not satisfied with the job at the company, he recalled the days at the company later like " My suggestion of TOTORO [...]
TOTORO is a symbol of our heart
My Neighbor Totoro is a imaginary story which is based on Japanese time of 1958. That time, Japan was still trying hard to recover from the damage of the war in both economy and spirit of people. Although the material world in Japan is not at all as enough as present time, some kind of pure hope and dream for the future filled the hearts of the [...]
Laputa as No.1
LAPUTA of the sky castle is the Japanese original title. "Castle in the sky" is a good conversion in English. This story was based on the imaginary castle in the sky which was casted in 19th century of Wales, UK. Miyazaki went to Wales England some years before this movies production started, so maybe the image of the trip influenced his basic [...]
