Monday 17 April, 2006

More Miayazaki

Life goes on, and Dragon is pretty much back to his stubborn self.

Yesterday we continued with the Miyazaki series and watched Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds which was epic-ly superb, and today it was turn for something lighter in the form of Porco Rosso (better a pig than a facist). I was so thrilled with Nausicaä, I had to go to Golden Age and pick up the first part of the manga comic that preceded the movie, and the comic is - if possible - even better.

I can't believe it's only been four days since I was last at work - feels like a week at least.

Posted by kolibri at 17 April 22:10, 2006
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# 1 - woja [TypeKey Profile Page] (on April 18, 2006 02:20 AM):

*catches up with bank holiday goings on away from computer*

Miyazaki = YAY!

We watched Howl again last night (just got it back from Kirsten's brother - spread the love!) still brilliant.

Laputa was the first Miyazaki that I watched, and is still in many ways a favourite. It's also interesting that I find the style of Laputa/Howl and parts of Spirited Away to be what I consider "normal" Miyazaki, whereas after watching more of them the technological stuff with the big machine and strange moving cities/castles is not at all in some of the more "typical" ones like the fabulous Totoro.

Seems he has 2 different styles/interests the mythical creatures and technological treats, all bound together with his own magic.

Wonderful films, I need to watch more of the *cough*not-totally-official*cough* collection someone gave me...

Oh and for people in the UK a reliable source has told me there's quite a few in FOPP at the moment, including Spirited Away for a fiver (and no I don't work for FOPP ;o))

[sorry for not saying anything, then another outburst :o)]


# 2 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on April 18, 2006 07:18 AM):

Anyone who says Miyazaki = YAY is welcome to take all the space they want on this blog :)

Looks like Howl is going to be Hayao Miyazaki's last film, like Spirited Away should have been... I was watching trailer for Tales of Earthsea, the next Studio Ghibli production, which is actually directed by Hayao's son Goro. While I don't think the film is likely to have much in common with the books, I hope the son keeps the magic alive.


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