Monday, January 02, 2006

Hayao Miyazaki


Just finished watching Spirited Away for the fifth or sixth time with Andy, Jenelle, Peggy, Dan, and my dad. It's by director Hayao Miyazaki, the best Japanese animator there is. (Acually, he's the only one I know!)

Spirited Away is my favorite of his films that I've seen. What we really wanted to see tonight, though, was his newest, Howl's Moving Castle. But it was nowhere to be found. I read the British book that it's based on while I was in Korea. I was very excited last year to hear that Miyazaki was animating it.

I hope Howl's Moving Castle is as good as Spirited Away. The artwork is beautiful. Extremely surreal at some points. I feel as spirited away as Chihiro was by the end of the movie.

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