07 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Up and Hayao Miyazaki

Yesterday, my wife and I took our girls to see Up. The movie was excellent (as attested by its 98% fresh rating at RottenTomatoes.com), but what struck me was the number of themes picked up from the movies of  Hayao Miyazaki, the “Japanese Walt Disney.” Miyazaki is probably best known in the U.S. for [...]

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