![]() There is also a great liking, at least in Miyazaki’s earlier films, of slapstick comedy capers. ![]() Sheeta and Pazu in their flight from the Dola pirates Most of Miyazaki’s young heroines seem to like flitting about on highly manoeuverable one-person flying machines – Nausicaa’s flying surfboard, Kiki’s broomstick. There is always a great love of flying in Hayao Miyazaki’s films – the numerous airships, bombers, biplanes and novelty flying machines that turn up in in particular Nausicaa, Kiki and Porco Rosso. Both The Castle of Cagliostro and Nausicaa were made with a limited traditional anime style, but with Laputa one can see the blossoming of Hayao Miyazaki’s extraordinary visual strengths and beauty. As such, Laputa: Castle in the Sky can be surely regarded as Hayao Miyazaki’s first fully realised film. Miyazaki formed Studio Ghibli in 1985 due to his dissatisfaction with working for others and Laputa: Castle in the Sky was the first film to emerge under the Studio Ghibli banner. Miyazaki subsequently went onto direct stunning works like Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind/Warriors of the Wind (1984), Laputa, My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Porco Rosso (1992) and the international hits of Princess Mononoke (1997) and Spirited Away (2001), followed by Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo on a Cliff By the Sea (2008) and The Wind Rises (2013). Miyazaki first appeared, working as an animator and then director on various Japanese animated series – Lupin III (1971-2), Panda! Go Panda! (1972), Heidi (1974), A Dog of Flanders (1975) and Future Boy Conan (1978) – before making his directorial debut with the slapstick caper film The Castle of Cagliostro (1980). ![]() Hayao Miyazaki is one of the modern masters of Japanese cinema and is almost certainly the finest animator at work in the world today.
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