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Dersu Uzala, perhaps one of Kurosawa's top 10 best movies.

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Wolf Children portrays a very romantic image of life in rural Japan, which Hosoda said drew on his upbringing, as he was raised in a small farming community. He said that he basically put his own hometown on the screen. And that he created this movie while he and his wife were watching their friends raise children. They now have a child of their own. (The audience gave a round of applause).



Just watched it. A very good movie overall. Slighly worse than Ghibli's top tier films, though that's already expected.

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Welcome Jertin2. This is how I see Miyazaki's movie's (as has been said, none of Takahata's movies are really for children)


This film, Panda Kopanda, directed by Takahata but written by Miyazaki is perhaps the most childish film ever made by the duo:



My Neighbor Totoro, by contrast, is a very complex film that pleases audiences from children to the film critics with the most refined tastes (Akira Kurosawa, for instance, had Totoro as one of his favorite films when he was over 80 years old and was one of the persons alive that have watched the greatest number of films).

I never liked Disney and Pixar's children's movies. They are just boring because they lack complexity, while all Miyazaki and Takahata's films besides Panda Kopanda, are complex films that have the depth to please adults even though they also have a childlike sense of wonder. A film critic said that Miyazaki's films are children's films for adults.

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Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys I

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No, they are not just for males but the focus demographic is for males between 15 and 30. Of course, you can always find a 90 year old women who watches those movies.

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The last game I played was Anno 2070, got tired of it a few weeks ago.



Very good city simulator / RTS, for those that like these sorts of games.

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Helloween, Gambling with the Devil

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Amazing how they never mentioned GoTF though.


What is "GoTF"?

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I can see how Nausicaa got into that list. For its time, that Movie was simply amazing. It's how Akira or GiTS is to SciFi at that time.


Nausicaa is easily one of the greatest movies ever made.

Akira and GiTS are, comparatively weaker films. Though they are still quite good but Nausicaa rises way above, bringing the art of animation to a whole new level, a level that has never been surpassed and equalled only a few times.

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Totoro... well, it's popular. Maybe they took into consideration its popularity, its timeless nature, and so on.


Totoro is a work of impressive grace, originality and beauty, it is also one of the greatest movies ever made. I think it should have been higher on that list, though I haven't watched all the movies there.

Here are the top 200 Japanese films according to a poll of film critics organized by Kinema Junpo film magazine:

http://letterboxd.com/mongoosecmr/list/k...japanese-films/

And a top 200 according to votes by magazine readers:

http://mubi.com/lists/japanese-movies-al...kinejun-readers

Interesting that Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away didn't make the critics list and were placed much lower in the readers list.

They also made a top anime films list, voted by anime critics (yes, there is such thing as anime critic in japan, apparently):

http://letterboxd.com/sharkbait/list/kin...en-anime-films/

Interestingly, The Castle of Cagliostro was considered Miyazaki's best movie on these two lists. I personally didn't think it was anything absurdly special when I saw it, a very good movie but nothing that special.

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Those are two different directors, Mamoru Hosoda and Mamoru Oshii. Both already have made an impressive set of films. I have watched Hosoda's Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leap Through Time, both were quite excellent movies.

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Very good monster movie. Much better than other monster movies that I have watched such as Cloverfield and the american Godzilla (what a mediocre film that was).

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Personally, I don't know why exactly I like Miyazaki's films, I never lived in Japan nor I never knew any Japanese. In the same way I never knew any American while living in my country but I like many American movies.

I think that I like his films because they are near perfectly executed. Nausicaa, for example, is easily the best science fiction epic I ever watched. It flows perfectly: the soundtrack and the images are mixed perfectly in the most awesome opening ever and the rest of the movie continues on with perfect execution. I remember that I watched Nausicaa about 5-6 times just after I discovered it. Differently from other movies, the plot wasn't the reason why I liked it, but just the experience of watching it.

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In terms of science fiction TV shows it is on it's own league.

Though I haven't watched many other science fiction anime series, I know Planetes, which is a nice series.

But in terms of american science fiction TV series, I think that most of these are quite weak series, mostly episodic in structure.

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Just watched:

Women in the Dunes


Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal


L'Argent


The Host

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I have noticed that most people outside of Japan, such as film critics and cinephiles, tend to think that My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away are the two masterpieces Miyazaki made (indeed, these were the two movies he made that managed to get into the top 250 greatest films of all time list from the 2012 Sign and Sound poll). While the third highest ranking Miyazaki film at that poll was Princess Mononoke at 377th place. These same three movies are his highest ranked films in the IMDB and generally show up in any pool, including many internet polls.

Notice that out of the 10 films Miyazaki made, only 4 are set in Japan and the first three ones are the favorites of international film critics and cinephiles.

While in Japan, the favorites among film critics, cinephiles and anime fans are Lupin, Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky and Totoro. This is his earlier work and besides Totoro they are all set in Europe or European-like settings (Nausicaa looks like a post-apocalyptic version of the west).

I noticed a similar difference in perceptions regarding the work of other Japanese film makers. Mizoguchi, for instance, is more popular in the West than in Japan: his period dramas such as Ugetsu and Sansho Dayu show up regularly in lists of ten best films ever made, but in Japan Mizoguchi's work is not as respected: in the 2009 Kinema Jumpo poll of the top 200 Japanese movies, no Mizoguchi made the top 20 and Sansho Dayu didn't make the list. Even an anime film such as Nausicaa ranked higher than Ugetsu (considering that anime is not as respected as live action by most film critics, even in japan, that's incredible).

I think that western film critics and fans tend to like the "exotic factor" of films set in Japan, which is not exotic for the Japanese themselves, so westerners tend to be biased when looking at Miyazaki's work. Though the Japanese tend to be more nostalgic: rating Miyazaki's earlier films higher.

What do you think?

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If no one has said it yet, Guaporense, Welcome to the Tavern...


Thanks.

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We are generally a good bunch in here and we are located, literally, worldwide.


As in many internet forums.

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We seem to have hit a slow patch right now with only a few of the members posting, I guess you could say we are the hard-core ones, lol...


I will help you people get this forum more active.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion is possibly the single greatest work of art that was ever transmitted via the television series medium.

I cannot think of any TV series that I ever watched that compares to the emotional impact of NGE. Critically acclaimed TV series like The Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica, while great on their own way, pale in comparison to Evangelion, for some reason.

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That's because Up From Poppy Hill wasn't released already in the US, so it is not eligible for the Oscars.

Also, since Ghibli movies are never released with the original soundtrack and script, the nominated film is not the actual Ghibli film but the altered version released in US theaters, with the altered scrip (some scrips were altered in dubbs to a degree that severely damaged the film, such as Kiki's Delivery Service and Castle in the Sky).

Anyway, who cares about the Oscars anyway?

From Up on Poppy Hill won the Japanese academy awards for best animation in 2012, the other nominees were:

K-On!
Buddha
Tōfu Kozō
Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence

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Meh, it is dubbed! First time I watched parts of Porco Rosso in the English soundtrack.

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Today I watched Hitchcock's famous Notorious. Quite good but nothing really amazing. I also watched André Ovredal's The Troll Hunter, a Norwegian movie about trolls, very funny.

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Interestingly, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are not considered to be among Miyazaki's best in Japan, while I was under the strong impression after watching these two masterpieces that they are probably his two best movies. Now while I find it impossible to say which is Miyazaki's best movie I think that I can safely say that my top 4 are Totoro, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

In a poll of anime critics, the highest ranking Miyazaki films were Lupin, Nausicaa and Totoro, in that order. Other polls yield similar results: film critics in general, in Kinema Jumpo top 200 Japanese movies of all time, critics didn't cite Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke but Nausicaa and Totoro got into the top 40 japanese movies of all time (Nausicaa managed to beat classics such as Mizoguchi's Ugetsu and Ozu's Late Spring).

That's maybe because Princess Mononoke is essentially a remake of Nausicaa while Spirited Away is similar to Totoro in tone, though less pure in it's sense of childlike wonder and innocence.

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