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 Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:23 pm
Miyazaki and Ghibli are pretty much known for great animated movies (hence why Disney picked them up). Ponyo is good, at least according to my Japanese history teacher. I love the Cat Returns and Whispers of the Heart, not to mention Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. They are geniuses.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:12 pm
Lidaby biggrin biggrin I've already seen Ponyo, I may or may not have done so illegally. ninja I love all of the animes done by him!! They're the best ever. I especially love My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Spirited Away and Porco Rosso. I even have all these totoro plushes in my room. And a soot sprite <3
Did you get the zOMG coal sprite last Christmas?
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:16 pm
MadHatterzMouse Miyazaki and Ghibli are pretty much known for great animated movies (hence why Disney picked them up). Ponyo is good, at least according to my Japanese history teacher. I love the Cat Returns and Whispers of the Heart, not to mention Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. They are geniuses.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:09 pm
Eirwyn MadHatterzMouse Miyazaki and Ghibli are pretty much known for great animated movies (hence why Disney picked them up). Ponyo is good, at least according to my Japanese history teacher. I love the Cat Returns and Whispers of the Heart, not to mention Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away. They are geniuses. *makes a mental note of that* Sometimes I do rent movies for the sole purpose of crying (Bicentennial Man should get an award for that), but then I'm already prepared for it. I have seen things, though, where I don't expect ANY of what happens and then it reduces me to tears because it's so sudden/heartbreaking/tragic. razz
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:19 pm
"Grave of the Fireflies" isn't easy to find. But we've got a copy we got a few years ago.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:44 am
I remember renting Graveyard on VHS. Man, that was a total downer, but I guess that's what you'd expect about a movie set in Japan immediately after WWII. It was an interesting movie, but not one I'd be eager to watch again because of it's rather bleak tone.
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Hairy Priest Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:29 am
Actually in class we saw part of the movie (Grave of the Fireflies). But I know about them. I don't think I've watched it all the way to the end either (probably because I wouldn't make it). I'll tend to stick to the somewhat lighter stuff (somehow I count Princess Mononoke in with this).
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:04 pm
I think it's set during the war. The father is on a battleship (and doesn't make it home), the family is living with an aunt (can't remember if they had to evacuate where they were living), the boy's school & factory get bombed & he doesn't bother going to work in another place because his mother isn't around any more to push him to do such things, since she got horribly burned in an attack and dies.
Really Miyazaki himself admits the boy acts like a modern boy, not one of that time period. A real WWII Japanese boy would be so drilled in obedience he would probably do what he was told instead of acting so unprepared for disaster and rebellious. But maybe that's a message--if kids live in dangerous times or places, their parents need to make sure they are able to take care of themselves and know what they must do.
The one thing the boy does right is that he truly loves his little sister and would do anything for her. But he just doesn't understand WHAT or HOW.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:04 pm
He is simply BRILLIANT!!!!!! whee
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