Favourite Miyazaki film

I remember seeing that as a kid back in the '80s when I had no idea what anime was, it was mind-blowing. For some reason I've never watched it as an adult, should correct that. I think TCoC and Starzinger were my first contacts with anime, but like I said, I was 8 or 9 and didn't know what they were or that they were even made in Japan (they were dubbed versions, of course), just that they were way different from the kids' cartoons we had on local television.

love lupin's style and esp green jacket

love cagliostro

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40128846

Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli has unveiled plans for a theme park to open in 2020.
The 200-hectare site will be built in Nagoya city, in Aichi prefecture, said Governor Hideaki Omura on Thursday at a press conference.
The park will be based on the popular film My Neighbor Totoro, embodying the movie's theme of "respecting and embracing nature".
The site of the park, previously the home of the 2005 World Expo, currently has a life-size replica of the house from the film.
Co-founder of Studio Ghibli and producer Toshio Suzuki who was also at the announcement, said the attraction will be "set in the world of Totoro". There will not be any amusement park rides.
"Construction will be planned around existing clearings to avoid felling trees," Governor Omura said.

Nora is a big fan of Kiki and Totoro. Totoro is magical; whoever said up-thread that it's not a story, it's an environment, is spot on. Nothing really happens, you just kind of hang out in that emotional, magical space for 80 minutes. I remember liking films where not much happens, plot-wise, as a kid. I often get frustrated myself by films that start of by establishing an environment that I'd like to remain in, and then move it on via plot to something I'm less interested in. But one of my favourite films if Koyanisqaatsi, so there you go.

i was delighted to find that there's a Totoro reference in Persona 5.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8oi9hlXYAAFGtf.jpg

Man, I love watching documentaries about Studio Ghibli, poor Miyazaki wandering around, all grumpy and in a perpetual existential crisis -

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3004569/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqD-pIoHGj0

took me about 20 years to realize kiki is about depression

kiki is so fucking incredible

That would be my vote for favourite Miyazaki film. It's perfect.

Kiki celebrates 30 years tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH32qCUowew

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/studio-ghibli-fest-2019-kikis-delivery-service

Kiki still the best in my book.

Such a sweet film. It's so cozy.

It's not the most ambitious but it's definitely the one that's given me the most feels. Really helped me out of a deep funk I was in when I first saw it

I think the only big-hitter Miyazaki I never gelled with was Princess Mononoke. It feels very jumbled and there's something missing from the storyline for me. You could say the same about Howl's Moving Castle, but I guess there are so many twists and turns to that film to keep it moving along, it doesn't really matter

that yumi arai video - incredible!

not sure any film means more to me than kiki; so beautiful, so practical

what a cool witch

there's so many wonderful things about it... the animation's consistently lovely and in the case of the broom-flying it's breathtaking. the town and the world are so warm and good, such that the moments when they still fall short and let kiki down, it's extra heartbreaking in the most believable, i've-been-there way. jiji (in japanese) is one of the all-time great movie cats. and yes, deep funks: what a smart, beautiful, unforced way to talk about what a funk like that feels like, and how they don't necessarily last forever, in a way that can speak to children (without talking down to them) and maybe even more deeply to adults. it's a movie i avoid rewatching too often for fear of spoiling its magic, but also one where every time i do watch it (usually to share it with a new person), i love it all over again.

otm

imo kiki is the most perfect work of art about depression

thought it was about puberty but tomato tomato

it's also rather elegantly about talent and careers/passions/purposes, and our emotional relationships to these things, how much our feelings about them intertwine with how fulfilling the rest of our lives are and vice versa. also man that bread looks delicious.

I coincidentally saw this for the first time over the weekend. Really lovely.

the animation's consistently lovely and in the case of the broom-flying it's breathtaking.

Yeah, the bustling city and countryside are so beautifully and naturally rendered. It really captures the imagination like nothing else.

https://media1.giphy.com/media/fgi8MEo6WCdtm/source.gif

The Studio Ghibli Easter Eggs of Kiki's Delivery Service... #1: a Ghibli bus, just missing Kiki as she flies around town. 👇 pic.twitter.com/xblznK4LqS

— Film4 (@Film4) July 31, 2018

My favorite easter egg is that if you zoom in on the map she holds up when she's delivering the cat in the cage, all the names of the towns/neighborhoods/features are real places in Hawai'i.

https://i.imgur.com/21qRvbg.jpg

(mostly north shore Maui)

Huh, I've only watched Kiki once, probably fifteen or so years ago, and it didn't particularly stick in my mind, certainly less so than a lot of his other films. Time to revisit I guess.

It's a very low key movie, but in think that's part of the appeal. Just a young witch out there, learning about the world.

kiki is a way more anxiety-inducing watch than it should be

hm that's interesting--I was just about to post:

Kiki probably has the lowest level of dramatic conflict of any more or less mainstream movie I've ever seen

though I could see how the absence of big dramatics might be more anxiety-inducing; the grandmother/granddaughter story is softly devastating, but you could almost miss it too

my kids love all the ghibli movies so i've seen most of these over the past couple of years. totoro and ponyo are my favorites, kiki is good and visually beautiful but it makes me sad

https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/03/13/towards-a-true-childrens-cinema-on-my-neighbor-totoro/

this essay captures a lot about what i love about totoro

My Neighbor Totoro is a genuine children’s film, attuned to child psychology. Satsuki and Mei move and speak like children: they run and romp, giggle and yell. The sibling dynamic is sensitively rendered: Satsuki is eager to impress her parents but sometimes succumbs to silliness, while Mei is Satsuki’s shadow and echo (with an independent streak). But perhaps most uniquely, My Neighbor Totoro follows children’s goals and concerns. Its protagonists aren’t given a mission or a call to adventure—in the absence of a larger drama, they create their own, as children in stable environments do. They play.

we watched princess mononoke not realizing it was one of the pg-13 ones and were a little startled by all the heads and arms being cleaved off by arrows

it's crazy that this poll happened before ponyo came out because it's slotted right in as a classic miyazaki in our household

Kiki says towards the end of the 2nd act something along the lines of "Flying is fun until you have to do it for work". If that's not a farewell to adolescence, I don't know what is!

Her conflict mostly details her transitioning into adult responsibilities: Choosing a career, independence, sustenance, overcoming lack of motivation and social awkwardness.

There's probably something to be said about her transition into womanhood as well but I will leave that to someone else.

yes it's more a 'learning to be in your twenties' film than a film about becoming a teenager

kiki is definitely a top 25 film for me

https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/17/20918448/watch-studio-ghibli-films-miyazaki-stream-hbo-max

"why not on disney," you ask?
https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/15/20828843/studio-ghibli-movies-miyazaki-streaming-netflix-disney-plus

(non-ghibli) The Castle of Cagliostro is still up on netflix, such a great Bond send-up (for you Bond-heads).

and great fun in its own right!

wow, the streaming thing is wild tho - "not on streaming" has been such a part of the brand for so long.

Watched Totoro (again) and Ponyo (first time) with our 3 yr old - the following opinions are all mine. Ponyo didn't really grab me, it lacked emotional weight. Totoro effortlessly shows us everything we need to know in the first few minutes - sisters, a new (old) house in the country, mother in hospital. It's not a great deal - well it is for the girls - but it's totally relatable and a solid foundation for everything that follows. And obviously Totoro himself is 100% adorable - the scene where Mei first meets him via his tail is amazing. In Ponyo we get a weird fish with a human face (wtf) and an overbearing father, and a boy. That's it. (The boy also has daddy issues but fairly minor ones & we don't find out till later.) It's not clear what drives Ponyo or why they become so attached to each other. I feel like Totoro is one for the ages, it overflows with humanity; Ponyo is just a bunch of weird stuff that happens.

watched Spirited Away in theaters last night and the couple next to us were laughing hysterically about the little bird carrying the mouse/baby; like more than seemed at all normal.
seeing Porco Rosso (eng dub) and The Wind Rises (original) over the next two days as part of this:
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-films-of-studio-ghibli/
could maybe sneak another one or two in if i'm lucky.... would kinda like to see kaguya again in theaters. Thinking now about what I have NOT seen in theaters and the big ones are Arietty (which i haven't seen anywhere!), Tales of Earthsea (which i only watched about half of a torrent when it was out back in japan before bailing) and Ponyo... and I don't much love Ponyo.

PONYO LOVES HAM tho

ledge otm on both films: totoro is hands-down one of the greatest movies ever made

but ponyo is so staggeringly beautiful to look at that i never get tired of it

And Ponyo's myriad sisters on the submarine are voiced by one-time YMO live keyboardist (and noted singer in her own right) Akiko Yano! Tales From Earthsea really is pretty bad though, I tried to like it on re-viewing but couldn't bring myself to care even a little.

Ponyo might dip a little too deep into the well of Northern European folklore (HC Anderson/R Wagner) for the typical Ghibli fan. I think it's amazing.

Yes, but what did the three-year-old think, ledge?