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I just wanted to say how much I love your icon. Totoro is one of my favorite films.

Thanks! Totoro's one of my favorites, too (and the topic of my first term paper in my doctoral program). I can't wait to see what the newly dubbed versions of "Totoro" and "Nausicaa" are like, when they come out this August. My friend

missmurchsion made the icon for me, from images gleaned from nausicaa.net.

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Have you seen Spirited Away? I love that film too. I love almost all of Miyazaki's work, really, but that is a standout, IMO.

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I've seen all of Miyazaki's films (including "Porco Rosso" which wasn't even sub-titled, so I had to search for a translated script afterwards to find out how much of the film I'd managed to guess correctly about, and how much I'd completely misinterpreted), and I very much enjoyed "Spirited Away". But for some reason, though it was (of course!) beautiful and profound and moving and very well done, it just didn't grab me and my personal issues the way some of his other films have done ("Nausicaa" in its un-cut version is probably my most favorite of Miyazaki's works, but it's awfully hard to pick and choose among so many superb works of art).

Are you looking forward to the new film Miyazaki's working on, from the Diana Wynne Jones book?

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I very much want to see Nausicca again, mainly because I saw it when I was in Japan and they didn't have a sub-titled version available. I watched it anyway and tried to figure everything out with my very limited Japanese but it was difficult. I haven't had a chance to rent it again.

The same is true of LaPuta ( I think it is called Castle in the Sky here in the States). My husband was able to translate a lot of the story for me at the time but I still want to see it dubbed or sub-titled.

(I recently saw Atlantis and was disgusted by the rather shameless rip off of a lot of LaPuta scenes.)

There is so much about the man's work that I love. I could watch his films over and over. They way he works with sound and light and silence is amazing. There is another film, not directed by him but made by Studio Ghibli, that is very good. I think the English title is "If you listen, you will hear." I don't know if it has been dubbed or subtitled yet but it is a fabulous look at modern Japan, full of all the incredible attention to detail and characterization typical of Miyazaki's films.

I had no idea Miyazaki was making a film from a DWJ book! It's funny, but I remember reading Fire and Hemlock and thinking "Miyazaki could make this into a fantastic film". Which one of her books is he using? We will have to tell x-h00ine, as DWJ is one of her favorite authors in the world. Of course, she says she hates anime but maybe you can convince her to give Miyazaki a chance. :)

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manynames and I have been following this story with interest. There is a picture of the publicity poster for the new film here.

And I'm interested to hear of all the Miyazaki films you've seen RevD. I've got Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky and Kiki's Delivery Service already, and I just ordered this 17 dvd set.

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I followed the link, and I'm impressed! Except for a music vid or two, you'll have just about everything associated with Studio Ghibli and/or Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata pre-Ghibli! However, I ordered some DVD's in Japanese and Chinese with English subtitles that were supposed to play in any zone, and only one of the two discs would play on my machine at all, and the English subtitled version of "Laputa" tended to skip around without warning. I suspect you're dealing with a classier supplier than my Singapore source, though, so hopefully you'll get good quality and fully-subtitled versions of the films.

Aside from my unfortunate Singapore mail-order purchases, I have some of Miyazaki's earliest works dubbed in English ("Panda! Go Panda!", a couple of "Sherlock Hound" tales, as well as "Castle of Cagliostro" and the butchered and much-edited English dub of "Nausicaa" from the 1980's sold under the title "Warriors of the Wind"), but I've not gotten into Isao Takahata's works ("Grave of the Fireflies", etc.), simply because his work seems so much darker in subject matter, however beautifully and truthfully rendered.

I go along with Helen McCarthy's argument (in her book HAYAO MIYAZAKI: MASTER OF JAPANESE ANIMATION) that in "Cagliostro", even though Miyazaki is working within someone else's universe and with someone else's characters, many of the themes and motifs characteristic of his later films can already be seen -- and it's just fun, anyway!

I've seen on borrowed VHS tapes the Japanese versions (without subtitles of any kind to clue me in!) of "Nausicaa", "Laputa: the Castle in the Sky", "Porco Rosso", and "Princess Mononoke", and I currently own on VHS and/or DVD the English-dubbed versions of "My Neighbor Totoro," "Kiki's Delivery Service," "Castle in the Sky", "Princess Mononoke", and "Spirited Away", as well as the widescreen Japanese version (with English subtitles) of "Kiki" for good measure.

I've already ordered my copy of the new DVD of "Nausicaa" due to be released on Aug. 31, and I'm planning to do the same for "Porco Rosso". I may even spring for the new two-disc version of "Totoro" being released on Aug. 31, as well, unless my frugal Scots-Irish blood balks at such a purchase when I don't have the excuse of current research/writing on anime to justify it!

However, with 17 DVD's, you'll still have me beat!

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I've watched 'My Neighbour Totoro' so far - and it worked fine, and the subtitles came on automatically. Which was a good thing, because I can't read the menus at all, with them being in Chinese!

And I now have an unneeded subtitled copy of Kiki, Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky (because I have the Disney versions already). So if you know anyone with a multi region dvd player who wants them...

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Sorry, I've been off-line since Tuesday night, and just got back home.

I assume by now you've seen

keswindhover's link, so you know the new Miyazaki film is "Howl's Moving Castle".

I would love to convince

x_h00ine to give anime a chance on this one, or at least to give Miyazaki a chance, since his work is a far cry from what many people think of as mainstream 'anime'. We'll have to work on that, eh?

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