Hayao Miyazaki’s latest, Howl’s Moving Castle, Establishes Director as Reigning Monarch of Imaginative Realm

You don’t need to be well versed in Japanese anime or in Hayao Miyazaki’s formidable oeuvre-or be a child, for that matter-to appreciate the magic within this auteur’s latest film, Howl’s Moving Castle . Miyazaki’s work is indeed childlike: but only in the sense that it draws out the innocent and pure in his audience, … Continue reading Hayao Miyazaki’s latest, Howl’s Moving Castle, Establishes Director as Reigning Monarch of Imaginative Realm