The master of Japanese anime, Hayao Miyazaki's retirement has shocked the whole world and made millions of anime fans sad, but he left so many fantastic movies that worth to be esteemed.
1. Spirited Away
In my opinion, Spirited Away is the most famous and interesting movie among all of Master Hayao Miyazaki’s work, it led to a creating climax for Hayao Miyazaki. It is said to be the Japanese “Alice in Wonderland”, and its magical imagination and all kinds of new but incredible drawing attracts millions of fans all over the world. The story talks about Chihiro, a girl who accidentally entered a supernatural world by a mystical channel, and she has to fight over the nefarious witch Yubaba so she can go back home. To save her parents from being turned into pigs, Chihiro works at Yubaba’s bathhouse. As a human being, Chihiro is teased a lot, but her kindness and hard-working get her many friends and help. Controlling someone by its name, Sootballs which work in boiler room, a famous medicine given as a thanks by River Spirit, it shows a wonderful world different from what we used to think of ghosts as an evil and fearful creature.
2. My Neighbor Totoro
Totoro, a magical spirit as a guard of a giant camphor tree, which can only be seen by kids with pure innocent, Hayao Miyazaki painted a dream for every child. An old “ghost” house, soot spirits which live in empty room to make everything they pass dusty, shiny lost nuts on the grass, Satsuki and Mei began their adventure in Mother Nature. A bush passage which led to a huge but nice and fluffy Totoro, meeting Totoro at a rainy day while the sisters were waiting for the bus, the seeds grow suddenly to an enormous tree straight up to the sky, a wind-like cat bus which stops at missing Mei, it is a plain fairy tale without a prince fighting the bad guys but full of childlike imagination represented the most harmony way people go along with the the nature.
3. Castle in the Sky
The innocent love between boys and girls, the fighting between evil and good, the Castle in the Sky is based on the flying island Laputa in the world-famous book Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Sheeta, the concealed princess of Laputa, is saved by Pazu, a boy who works in a mine. To help Sheeta escape from the bad guys who chased after her crystal amulet, the two kids went on the way to find the Laputa. The essence of all of Hayao Miyazaki’s works, is always the theme and own opinion of the author. Someone has regarded Miyazaki as a dreamer, but I think he is more like a magician: Unlike the usual anime, his movies are always about love, love between human beings, love between human and other creatures, love between human and the environment. He can perfectly mix moral and humanity into his work, and it will never make people feel bored or reduce its charm, in contrast, it has a great inspiration on people and lead to a deeper understanding of life.
4. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Hayao Miyazaki always like to remind people of the conflict between human and nature through his movies, and he created the character Nausicaa, the princess of the Valley of the Wind. She is brave, smart and nice, you can never dislike her. She is like a wind, lively and fresh, which blow away the pain and darkness. She is the first light of dawn, bring hope to the world, the enraged world which is hurt so much by the greedy and selfish people. She never hurt anyone, even the enemy; she knows the best the communicate with each other, include the environment; she stand up for her people and faced alone the angry nature. And she succeed, the wounded nature calm down and people understand what they did is wrong. The wind blow again in the valley.
5. The Wind Rises
As the last movie by Hayao Miyazaki, “the greatest artist ever in Japan” before his retirement, the Wind Rises has received great attention from the world, but it also caused a disputation as the main character Jiro Horikoshi is based on the real person in history, the designer of the fighter aircraft used in World War II The role Japan play in World War II is always a sensitive topics, so some people thought Hayao Miyazaki wanted to “change the history for Japan” or “cover to sin Jiro has ever made in World War II” which I strongly disagreed. In the movie, Jiro is a boy whose long for the feeling of flying in the sky, but he can’t be a pilot because of his bad eye-sighted, so he chose another way--a plane designer. We can never find out the truth, but we can know that works can represent the author’s thought. Rather than the real Jiro in history, I would like to say the character on the other side is Hayao Miyazaki himself. There is no cruelty about the war, there is only a dream come true. We will never know how Jiro feels when he saw his favourite airplane turn into a killing machine, but we will drown into this wonderland when the wind rises.
FUTURE RESEARCH: In my next post I plan on researching, what are 10 things you learn from Anime.
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