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Spirited Away
Doc, I agree with you for the most part. Hayao Miyazaki continues to please. We've been showing our daughter a selection of his movies, starting with Tottoro, then on to Kiki's Delivery Service (Majou no takyuubin), and the first movie she saw in a theatre was Spirited Away. Miyazaki has a way of transporting you into a magical universe armed only with a delightful story filled with interesting characters. Along with you, I didn't like the dubbing. Apparently there are some theatres playing the movie with subtitles. For now, we're contenting ourselves with renting the untranslated video from the local Japanese-language video store. I'm looking forward to hearing the nuances in the native Japanese. We're also watching some of the better Disney animation too - mostly Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King (story stolen from another Japanese, Kimba the White Lion, by Tezuka, creator of Astroboy btw) - and while Disney does the highest quality animation in the US, its stories are boringly simplistic compared to even half-decent Japanese anime, let alone Miyazaki's work. When we went to see the movie on its opening weekend, the theatre was packed, and that warmed my heart. This movie deserves to be as popular here in the US as it was in Japan when it was released last year.
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