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Hayao Miyazaki: Movies
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Considered by many to be Miyazaki's most important work, this movie is the story of a princess growing up in a near-feudal world in the distant future, after war has destroyed much of the Earth's environment and technology. A love of all living things and an impassioned drive lead her into terrible danger as she discovers that the dark forces of the world beyond her homeland are matched in intensity by her own feelings of rage, pain, and loss. Can she lead her people beyond survival to reconciliation with nature and with each other?
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Spurred on by his accomplishments on the small screen, Hayao decided that the time was right to make his feature-length debut. The Castle of Cagliostro was released in 1979, and eventually made its way to North America in a dubbed and edited version. Steven Spielberg reportedly called the film “one of the greatest adventure movies of all time.”
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Miyazaki ... has a tendency to include strong female leads. The women in his movies are strong-willed and often defiant, yet sensitive. This complexity of character lends yet another dimension to his films.
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The inclusion of this film on this list is a bit controversial since Miyazaki didn't serve as director on this title. He was... credited as screenwriter, storyboarder, producer, and sequence director. So for all intents and purposes, this was his movie.
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Disney releases Miyazaki films in two formats: a subtitled version for the purists and a dubbed extravaganza for the popcorn crowd. Howl's Moving Castle is no exception. It features the voice of Billy Crystal as the obstreperous fire demon and Lauren Bacall as the Witch of the Wastes. This is fine, says Miyazaki, because Bacall is "a fabulous woman" who brought something to the role that home-grown actors couldn't. "All the Japanese female voice actors have voices that are very coquettish and wanting male attention, which was not what we wanted at all."
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Miyazaki was ... influenced by his political background in the ANPO Hantai (opponents of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty) and labor movements of the 1960s. These political roots had an impact on the themes of his films.
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