Spirited Away (2001) was Hayao Miyazaki's breakthrough film to high worldwide popularity. His next long movie was Howl's Moving Castle (2004), which bases to the juvenile adventure book by British Diana Wynne Jones. The story is also published in cinemanga.
Howl's Moving Castle is magical and spellbinding story. Miyazaki's strength is his ability to get fairy tales to live and he succeeds in the Howl's Moving Castle too. Miyazaki was inspired by Osamu Tezuka, whose manga he admired, but anime he hated.
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Howl's Moving Castle is the story of young Sophie, who the evil witch has turned into a old woman. Sophie flees and jumps along to the moving castle, but it's rumored that Howl eats young girls hearts. Sophie ends up to make an agreement with firedemon called Calcifer.
Main difference with the book and the film is, that in the movie the war is ongoing, but in the book the war is just coming. Also the most interesting thing in the book is removed from the film entirely: in the movie the other side of the black door is the war, but in the book there is an weird and scary place: our world.
At the end of the book evil witch gott her Wizard of Oz-kind salary, while the film she becomes a cute grandma. Miyazaki has been determined to reform the narrative tradition. Most of his films the evil does not loose his/hers head, but becomes funny and harmless creature.
Hayao's son Goro Miyazaki's directed his first movie Tales from Earthsea (Gedo senki) in 2006. Film bases to Ursula K. Le Guin's novel.
Movies by Hayao Miyazaki (as a director):
- Lupin III, 1971-1972 TV series (Rupan sansei)
- Future Boy Conan (or The Adventures of Adnan and Lena), 1978 TV series (Mirai shônen Konan)
- Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro, 1979 (Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro)
- Lupin the 3rd (or The New Lupin III), 1980 TV series (Rupan sansei: Part II)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984 (Kaze no tani no Naushika)
- Sherlock Hound, the Detective, 1984-1985 TV series (Meitantei Holmes)
- Castle in the Sky (or Laputa: The Flying Island), 1986 (Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta)
- My Neighbour Totoro, 1988 (Tonari no Totoro)
- Kiki's Delivery Service, 1989 (Majo no takkyûbin)
- Porco Rosso, 1992 (Kurenai no buta)
- On Your Mark, 1995 Music video
- Princess Mononoke, 1997 (Mononoke-hime)
- Spirited Away, 2001 (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)
- Whale Hunt, 2001 Short film (Kujira tori)
- Koro's Big Day Out, 2002 Short film (Koro no dai-sanpo)
- Mei and the Kitten Bus, 2002 Short film (Mei to Koneko basu)
- Imaginary Flying Machines, 2002 Short film (Kūsō no Sora Tobu Kikaitachi)
- Ornithopter Story: Fly!, 2002 Short film (Hiyodori Tengu Go!)
- Howl's Moving Castle, 2004 (Hauru no ugoku shiro)
- Looking for a Home, 2006 Short film (Yadosagashi)
- Water Spider Monmon, 2006 Short film (Mizugumo monmon)
- The Day I Harvested a Star, 2006 Short film (Hoshi wo katta hi)
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, 2008 (Gake no ue no Ponyo)
- The Theory of Evolution, 2009 Short film (Film Guru guru)
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