PRINCESS MONONOKE: HAYAO MIYAZAKI: POCKET MOVIE GUIDE
This book focusses on Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 masterpiece Princess
Mononoke.
Princess Mononoke is a work of genius. It is a masterpiece. It
is one of the most staggeringly incredible films you will ever see.
By any standards you want to apply, the level of imagination and
artistry and detail and insight and energy in this movie is simply
astounding. As well as being a visionary piece, with the highest
quality animation achievable, with fascinating characters,
stupendous action, brilliant set-pieces, and with some deeply
poetic episodes, Princess Mononoke is also a thematically rich
movie. There are many levels to this wonderful picture.
This new study of Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Monoke includes
sections on Miyazaki's influences his contemporaries and colleagues
(including Akira Kurosawa) his characters his movies' relation to
Western animation (including the Walt Disney Company) and his
themes and motifs. The book also explores Japanese animation, its
production and style, some classics of anime, and digital
animation.
Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Hayao Miyazaki is known as the
'Japanese Disney', a filmmaker as revered - and as popular - as
Walt Disney or Steven Spielberg. Miyazaki, in short, is a true
phenomenon in contemporary animation and in world cinema.
Miyazaki's movies include Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's
Moving Castle, Laputa: Castle In the Sky and My Neighbor
Totoro.
Hayao Miyazaki may be the most talented fantasy filmmaker of his
generation: not even the finest filmmakers of Hollywood can rival
his films when it comes to creating fantasy worlds, and fantastical
characters and events. Miyazaki has millions of fans around the
world, not least among fellow animators and filmmakers, for whom he
is a genius.
What Hayao Miyazaki's films do is to bring you completely into a
fantasy world that is instantly recognizable and familiar. It's as
if these fantasy realms have always existed - very much like J.R.R.
Tolkien's Middle-earth or Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea (both
influences on Miyazaki).
Includes quotes by Miyazaki; reviews by fans; and resources.
Fully illustrated. With filmography, bibliography and notes.208
pages. ISBN 9781861713711. www.crmoon.com AUTHOR'S NOTE: I hope
this book offers readers some new insights into Princess Monoke and
the movies of the incredible filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, so they can
go back and enjoy the movie all over again. The book also includes
technical info on animation, a chapter on the animation industry in
Japan, and comparisons between Miyazaki's films and those in the
West, including Walt Disney's work.
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