I watched Spirited Away yesterday. It was great. I don’t remember such a cartoon, which impressed me so much. It might be because of completely different culture, as every other moment in the movie I didn’t know what would happen next. Or because of non-Hollywood-style cartoon, but back again it is an after-effect of different culture.
Everything was so weird, and still I recognized some of the customs I read about before, like taking off shoes in a house, bowing etc. I happen to watch a couple of anime-style cartoons before and must confess that it was completely different, more European like by sight but completely Japanese by spirit.
Or might be the reason was that I like fairy tales, and that was definitely a tale?
What I didn’t understand is how old was the girl? Was she adult enough to know what love is? Judging by her appearance she is only about 10 years old. Was it a cartoon-style appearance of the character, which took me in?
And another thought: all the monsters were like Poke’mons (hope I spell this word correctly) that made me think that in Japanese tales all monsters look like those plus of course dragons. Which are, frankly saying, look like eels.
And another: Are the Japanese pagan?
March 19th, 2003 at 3:25 am
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the principal religious faiths of japan are shinto, a religion based on ancestor and nature worship, with about 200 sects and denominations; and buddhism, with about 207 sects and denominations.
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ainu, aboriginal people of asia, chiefly occupying parts of the japanese island of hokkaido as well as the russian kuril islands and sakhalin.
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the traditional religion, based on faith in a supreme deity, is a form of nature worship that revolves around a belief in spirits associated with natural phenomena and forces.
August 31st, 2004 at 11:09 am
Try to see “My neighbour Totoro” [Tonari no Totoro] (1988).
http://www.oomu.org/images/calendrier/ghibli/2000/totoro2000.jpg
The same studio, director and artist. http://anime.dvdspecial.ru/Biographies/miyazaki.shtml