Oh, I've never read that interview, but it's great support for my interpretation of No-Face. Do you remember what interview was it, or where you read it? I'd love to track it down.
Thank you so much for this presentation. I love the fact that you talked about the cultural aspects of real life Japan and the Japan shown in the movie. I saw Spirited Away recently for the first time. I didn't really enjoy it but now that I watched your video I have another way of looking at it. Maybe on a re-watch I'll enjoy it more.
Hey Hanayuni, I just re-arrived on your comment after three years and wondered if you've had a rewatch of Spirited Away since? Did you notice anything different in your experience of it?
Found your videos through my own research in the deeper themes of Princess Mononoke. Thanks for doing this research, it is helping my own journey to better understanding as well! :)
I would love to hear a talk from you about all the topics you mentioned at the end--the name seal, shinto origins of the characters, etc Ive been going through your playlist of ghibli analyses and each video is so well researched and presented, and fascinating!
Ooooohhohohohho, thank you for asking this most intriguing of questins! :D I've long given up on picking just one. I think with Miyazaki's work being so varied and so deep, my resonance with each of them has changed over time. Not to mention that the world has changed a lot since these films were made and I myself have gone through many different layers of understanding who I am as the decades have gone by. As I write this I've watching these films for 25 years, and many films have grown in my eyes, Spirited Away and Howl being two which I didn't connect to that deeply twenty years ago but I feel much more connection to them now. If I had to choose the one scene that has had the most impact on me, that would be Totoro's culmination in the tree rebirth ceremony (that I talk about in my Totoro video) that gained more and more layers as time went on. But the film which has gone through the most transformation in my experience of it has to be Nausicaä. When I first saw Nausicaä as a teenager, it was a beautifully drawn adventure film for me, the art and the music and the story was calling out to me but I did not yet know what to do with it. In my twenties, as I studied Campbell, Jung, Buddhism and Shinto, I started to grasp how deep the folklore and mythology of it is and started to look at the film as Nausicaä looks up at how deep and tall the crystallised forest is. Later I started to connect deeply with the film's therapeutic theme on the loss of 'mother' (symbolically and in real terms), and the related theme of having to work through childhood trauma through self-reliance. And when I did a big podcast special about the film at the end of the last decade it started feeling almost prophetic with how the world was going. And then 2020 happened, and the changes from that have yet to settle for me to be able to re-evaluate what Nausicaä says to me now. Hope that answers your question :)
@@followthemoonrabbit thank you very much for your reply! It was deep and thorough, just like your reviews. As for me my favourite studio Ghibli film is and will always be Porco Rosso. It's the most underrated Ghibli movie in my opinion. Unlike the other ones is far simpler, lighthearted and doesn't contain profound themes of environmentalism or capitalism, but it has grown to me the most probably because I share those qualities as well as a person XD The other films call out to me in the same way they did with you but without all those reviews to draw upon I would be lost. Nausicaa is my second favourite Ghibli film and yes it was damn right prophetic. Perhaps Miyazaki is a prophet among the mangakas lol 🤭 I love Miyazaki's films so much cuz I strongly share his notions with regards to respecting the nature and I too despise war. I wanted to say thank you for your reviews and also congratulate you about them! Keep up the great work 💪
Miyazaki-san said in an interview that No-Face is the kami (God, spirit) of contemporary world, literally.
Oh, I've never read that interview, but it's great support for my interpretation of No-Face. Do you remember what interview was it, or where you read it? I'd love to track it down.
@@followthemoonrabbit it's an Italian interview but you can use Google translate
www.studioghibli.it/la-citta-incantata-la-parola-a-hayao-miyazaki/
I am writing a 4000 word essay on Spirited Away and this is a MASSIVE help, thanks so much for doing this talk!
Thank you for this brilliant presentation!
Thank you so much for this presentation. I love the fact that you talked about the cultural aspects of real life Japan and the Japan shown in the movie. I saw Spirited Away recently for the first time. I didn't really enjoy it but now that I watched your video I have another way of looking at it. Maybe on a re-watch I'll enjoy it more.
Hey Hanayuni, I just re-arrived on your comment after three years and wondered if you've had a rewatch of Spirited Away since? Did you notice anything different in your experience of it?
how does this guy only have 138 subs?
Seriously!!! Deserves way more!
Found your videos through my own research in the deeper themes of Princess Mononoke. Thanks for doing this research, it is helping my own journey to better understanding as well! :)
Thank you so much for doing this.
I would love to hear a talk from you about all the topics you mentioned at the end--the name seal, shinto origins of the characters, etc
Ive been going through your playlist of ghibli analyses and each video is so well researched and presented, and fascinating!
I'm so glad I found your page!
This is SO INTERESTING!
Which one is your favourite Ghibli movie?
Ooooohhohohohho, thank you for asking this most intriguing of questins! :D I've long given up on picking just one. I think with Miyazaki's work being so varied and so deep, my resonance with each of them has changed over time. Not to mention that the world has changed a lot since these films were made and I myself have gone through many different layers of understanding who I am as the decades have gone by. As I write this I've watching these films for 25 years, and many films have grown in my eyes, Spirited Away and Howl being two which I didn't connect to that deeply twenty years ago but I feel much more connection to them now. If I had to choose the one scene that has had the most impact on me, that would be Totoro's culmination in the tree rebirth ceremony (that I talk about in my Totoro video) that gained more and more layers as time went on.
But the film which has gone through the most transformation in my experience of it has to be Nausicaä. When I first saw Nausicaä as a teenager, it was a beautifully drawn adventure film for me, the art and the music and the story was calling out to me but I did not yet know what to do with it. In my twenties, as I studied Campbell, Jung, Buddhism and Shinto, I started to grasp how deep the folklore and mythology of it is and started to look at the film as Nausicaä looks up at how deep and tall the crystallised forest is. Later I started to connect deeply with the film's therapeutic theme on the loss of 'mother' (symbolically and in real terms), and the related theme of having to work through childhood trauma through self-reliance. And when I did a big podcast special about the film at the end of the last decade it started feeling almost prophetic with how the world was going. And then 2020 happened, and the changes from that have yet to settle for me to be able to re-evaluate what Nausicaä says to me now.
Hope that answers your question :)
@@followthemoonrabbit thank you very much for your reply! It was deep and thorough, just like your reviews.
As for me my favourite studio Ghibli film is and will always be Porco Rosso. It's the most underrated Ghibli movie in my opinion. Unlike the other ones is far simpler, lighthearted and doesn't contain profound themes of environmentalism or capitalism, but it has grown to me the most probably because I share those qualities as well as a person XD
The other films call out to me in the same way they did with you but without all those reviews to draw upon I would be lost. Nausicaa is my second favourite Ghibli film and yes it was damn right prophetic. Perhaps Miyazaki is a prophet among the mangakas lol 🤭
I love Miyazaki's films so much cuz I strongly share his notions with regards to respecting the nature and I too despise war.
I wanted to say thank you for your reviews and also congratulate you about them!
Keep up the great work 💪