It is a beautiful film full of the kind of lovingly hand-animated goodness fans have come to expect. While the animation doesn’t compare to Spirited Away, this is from the same team that designed Arrietty (director Hiromasa Yonebayashi), so it is still richer than anything U.S. It was not directed by him, but it was hand-picked by him for adaptation. Text and SubtextĢ016 Oscar-nominee When Marnie Was There is the final Ghibli film to be released during Miyazaki’s tenure.
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It also released my pick for #1 children’s movie of all time: My Neighbor Totoro (required viewing for all children under the age of 13 and all parents of said children).
Studio Ghibli was the greatest studio to emerge from the post-war era (Miyazaki was born during WWII) and counts the only non-English-speaking animated film to win an Academy Award ( Spirited Away, 2003). Japanese animation owes more to Japanese filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and 1000-year old traditions of calligraphic line-work and pictorial scrolls than to The Land Before Time parts 1-14 or Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time. While the earliest Japanese animators were inspired by the earliest Disney work (like Snow White), the two quickly diverged to the point where drawing equivalencies is almost insulting to the work of masters like Miyazaki. The craft of hand-drawn anime is especially distinct from the kind of work US animation studios have churned out lately (*cough* Disney). The animation can be CG, 2D hand-drawn, hyperrealistic, absurdly exaggerated, painterly, or a mixture of all of the above (sometimes in the same frame).Īmerican audiences who may have been exposed to Japanese pop culture through Pokémon or (if you’re old) Robotech are only scratching the surface on a medium rich in history and craft. There are surrealist fantasies, cyberpunk science-fiction, period epics, and erotica. There are adult dramas, teen romance and children’s stories. As a medium it is as diverse in style and genre as the US filmmaking industry. Cartoons? Really?įirst, a little must be said about Japanese animation (or “anime”). With its final production, 2016 Oscar-nominated When Marnie Was There, Ghibli hit the pause button on creating new work and is said to have gone into “restructuring” mode. Animation’s greatest auteur, Hayao Miyazaki, announced he was stepping down from his visionary and meticulous work at Studio Ghibli. In 2014 the world got a little less interesting with the retirement of one of the greatest directors of the moving picture.
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