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Hayao Miyazaki: Directors
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Instead of Pippi Longstocking, Miyazaki conceived, wrote, designed, and animated two Panda! Go, Panda! shorts which were directed by Takahata. Miyazaki's first film as a director was The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), a Lupin III adventure film.
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Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" may ride the bullet train for best animated feature straight into the Oscars, if top honors doled out at the 30th Annual Annie Awards on Saturday night are any indication. Miyazaki's feature, about a girl who comes of age in a spirit world, won all four categories in which it was nominated, including best picture, best director, best writing and best music.
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Porco Rosso (1992) was a notable departure for Miyazaki, in that the main character was an adult male, an anti-fascist aviator transformed into an anthropomorphic pig. The film is set in 1920s Italy and the title character is a bounty hunter who fights air pirates and an American soldier of fortune. The film explores the tension between selfishness and duty. The film can ... be viewed as an abstract self-portrait of the director; its subtext can be read as a fictionalized autobiography.
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