![]() ![]() I have not got them all (come on give me time) but it would appear that they form a pictorial history of the studios crowning achievements. This book is part of a library of titles covering off the majority of the major productions. But the book also discusses the technicalities of some of the scenes and how the effects were achieved- after all we are talking about flat images - something that live action filming often would take for granted. This book not only charts the film (reading the notes there references to the fact that sections where not even storyboarded they just developed as they progressed - now how many films could make a claim like that). After all how many iconic characters can we identify and yet know next to nothing about them or the story that they came from. However you cannot ignore the impact this film (and by rights Studio Ghibli) has had on popular culture and this book charts both the film that spawned them and the story that gave them life. My Neighbour Totoro is probably at the top or at least very close to it (of course it is subjective and very personal). Another manga, Hikoutei Jidai, was later evolved into his film Porco Rosso.įor any fan of Studio Ghibli you will eventually come across certain titles - both for the fame and for their beauty. His major work was the Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind manga, an epic tale he worked on intermittently from 1982 to 1994 while he was busy making animated films. My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro, 'The Totoro Next-door') is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. In addition to animation, Miyazaki also draws manga. In particular, Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke received the Japan Academy Award for Best Film and was the highest-grossing (about US$150 million) domestic film in Japan's history until it was taken over by another Miyazaki work, Spirited Away. All of these films enjoyed critical and box office successes. The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli, at which Miyazaki has since written, directed, and produced many other films with Takahata. In 1984, he released Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, based on the manga (comic) of the same title which he had started two years before. In 1978, he directed his first TV series, Conan, The Boy in Future, then moved to Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, the classic Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. In 1971, he moved to A Pro with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, where he was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible ability to draw, and the seemingly-endless stream of movie ideas he proposed. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. The poster was designed for the occasion of a digitally remastered version of the film being released in China on December 14, 2018.Īnother very cool element of the poster is that we learned that in Chineses, Totoro is written as 龙猫 (or 龍猫) which means dragon cat! And as it turns out, the Chinchilla is also called dragon cat in Chinese.Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo on January 5, 1941. The poster was designed by Chinese designer Huang Hai, who happens to be a legendary figure in the world of movie poster designs. But the markings ahead indicate that they’re actually walking through the fur of Totoro’s large belly. Admittedly, it’s a bit hard for kids to grasp at first but the poster depicts a birds-eye view of the sisters, Satsuki and Mei, pushing their way through tall grass. We gasped when we came across this poster for the classic Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. ![]()
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