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Among the 11 features of Hayao Miyazaki, the revered Japanese animator and founder of Japan’s animation giant Studio Ghibli, the 1997 fantasy adventure “Princess Mononoke” is among his most accessible. Packed with action and marauding shapeshifter spirits, this environmental fairy tale about an ancient deep forest inhabited by incandescent fairies (kodama) is set during the late Muromachi period.
Miyazaki, who’s known for being able to capture the forces of nature and the great outdoors like no other animator, dreams up his stories and draws much of the storyboards and characters himself. He traveled with his designers to Yakushima in Kyushu to draw the forest. James Cameron has admitted that “Princess Mononoke,” along with the floating islands in Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky,...
Among the 11 features of Hayao Miyazaki, the revered Japanese animator and founder of Japan’s animation giant Studio Ghibli, the 1997 fantasy adventure “Princess Mononoke” is among his most accessible. Packed with action and marauding shapeshifter spirits, this environmental fairy tale about an ancient deep forest inhabited by incandescent fairies (kodama) is set during the late Muromachi period.
Miyazaki, who’s known for being able to capture the forces of nature and the great outdoors like no other animator, dreams up his stories and draws much of the storyboards and characters himself. He traveled with his designers to Yakushima in Kyushu to draw the forest. James Cameron has admitted that “Princess Mononoke,” along with the floating islands in Miyazaki’s “Castle in the Sky,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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