| March 30, 2007
Miyazaki is the creator of many popular animated feature films, as well as manga. Although largely unknown in the West outside of animation communities until Miramax released his film Princess Mononoke in 1999, his films have enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan and East Asia. Miyazaki's Spirited Away is the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan; Princess Mononoke held the same title for a short period until the release of Titanic later in the same year.
Miyazaki's films are distinguished by recurring themes such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. The protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women; the villains, when present, are often morally ambiguous characters and have redeeming qualities.
Miyazaki's films have generally been financially successful, and this success has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney. However, Miyazaki does not see himself as a person building an animation empire, but as an animator fortunate enough to have been able to make films with complete creative control. In 2006, Time magazine voted Miyazaki as one of the most influential Asians in the past 60 years.
-source: wikipedia
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Tags: animation, anime, cartoon, feature film, japanese
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Karen Horton
on April 01, 2007 “I haven't seen a Miyazaki film I didn't like. Spirited Away was what started my interest.....but I think Nausicaa is the real masterpiece.
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ryan hageman
on April 02, 2007 “Spirited Away is my all time favorite.
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Thuan Nguyen
on September 02, 2008 “Miyazaki is a true animation genius. If God is in the details, then there is the divine sprinkled all over his films. My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service are especially magical, but Spirited Away is his masterpiece. (I haven't worked up the nerve to watch Grave of the Fireflies.)” |
