#miyazaki films

[cisikim]

“i’ll be so lucky to have you” is such a beautiful line. himi knowingly returns to a world that is destined to consume her in the fires she holds dear, all because they’re also the very doors that’ll bring mahito into existence.

and that’s the enduring essence of miyazaki’s works: life, through all its suffering and misery, is still worth living. through the people we love and the memories we cherish, we search for and find our reasons to live.

[delulukittyy]

hands and everything they hold

[lagriffedemaho]

Ponyo Ponyo 🌺🪣 Gouache Process 🎬

[djwiththejd]

Walked out of The Boy and The Heron thinking “This is basically Spirited Away for little boys with PTSD.”

[embracethefeels]

Not gonna lie, I just want to see behind the scenes of Robert Pattinson recording for The Boy and the Heron. He sounds NOTHING like himself, which is what it’s supposed to sound like, but I didn’t realize he could sound like that.

[choking-on-ice]

AtLA x Princess Mononoke

Sooooo I just really wanted to draw Sokka and Zuko as Ashitaka and San and holy crap I'm so happy with how this turned out!!!! I hope this finds it's possibly very niche audience

[ren-nolasco]

Sticker Sheet available at my shop.

[xyoung-lonelyx]

[tractisvir]

The master turns 83! Happy Birthday Miyazaki-san! Off to see your strange bird film for a second round today 🦜 🦜 🦜

[vulgar-mary-p-ppins]

A glorious and stunning movie, well worth going to see. Miyazaki has not shied away from talking about the war before: The Wind Rises, albeit at it’s core a love story is still about the problem of creating the kamikaze planes and how life continues even in war time. As Miyazaki’s work has matured and his son has taken over more and more of the production, I find that his stories have become darker and his story-lines more complex. As such, I am delighted to see him make something so unsettling and mature as a (extremely loose) Dante’s Inferno. This is a far, far, FAR cry from something like Kiki and Totoro.

The details in which the shadow of the ongoing Pacific War color this film lend to Miyazaki’s style of talking about calamity in the softest way possible. Barring the opening sequence in which the main character witnesses the firebombing in Tokyo, there is no other “war violence”. However, at one point, his father stores something his factory is making in their house: the cockpits of the kamikaze planes. A character in the other world mentions off hand “soon, your world will be enveloped in fire”, which is clearly in reference to the bomb. Background details show wartime propaganda posters, nationalistic symbols, and children and adults performing the volunteer work usual for late stage war time. Much like Nausicaä, these are all details of the setting and are almost never overtly mentioned or pointed out.

This is a story about grief, just as Dante’s Inferno is, but also about the processing of war time trauma by a country besieged. Mihito, the main character, means “sincere one” and, when looking at this piece through the understanding that many Japanese perceive themselves as victims of World War II, he is a symbol of the victim mind-set of Japanese war time. He takes things as they come, never having a strong reaction either way. He isn’t bitter or angry, neither is he sad or grieving. He is numb. He goes through the motions of politeness, the motions of nationalistic fervor, the motions of life; but he is numb. It is only when the promise of retrieving his mother from death comes to him that he begins to break through his numbness, but it is the retrieval of his aunt that makes him a little boy again — a symbol of processing the loss of his old way of life, pre-war Japan, by embracing the new, post-war Japan.

I need to do more research into the symbolism of particular birds, because the usage feels too specific for me, but frankly, I haven’t yet. I loved the movie. I can’t wait to watch it again. Its a movie about sitting with your emotions, however, so, much like Miyazaki’s other more mature works, it is almost painfully slow. But that is what makes him a master storyteller; as an artist he reminds us to sit down and wait. The world is too fast now, and he has stated in interviews that his works is supposed to instill nostalgia for a time when we were younger and the world wasn’t so fast nor demanding. He wants us to sit: with the whimsical, with the painful, with the romantic, and in this case with the unsettling. And he does it again.

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Cinematographer: Atsushi Okui

[maomao9jinshi]

More preview of ‘THE BOY AND THE HERON’.

[delulukittyy]

all i have ever wanted is to transmigrate into the ghibli world

[inbarfink]

[orangelasagnaart]

GO WATCH THE NEW STUDIO GHIBLI FILM!!!!

[emmakubert]

Inktober DAY 13: Rise