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Monday, March 27, 2006

                      

  STEAMBOY AND HOWLS MOVING CASTLE

another movie from ghibli... from the director of AKIRA comes.... a retro science-fiction epic set in victorian england, STEAMBOY features an inventor prodigy name RAY STEAM who receives a mysterious ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. .. this young boy must use it to fight evil....redeem his family...and save london from destruction.. the lush victorian interiors and the elegance of the era's mechanical designs allows OTOMO to create a dazzling visual backgrounds and machines for this film.. with more than 180,000 drawing and 400 CG cuts, STEAMBOY is sure to be one of the most elaborate animated feature... while HOLW'S MOVING CASTLE is a movie filled with characters with deep feelings of love and loyalty who are thrust into a story about war and conflict....the main character SOPHIE HATTER, is seemingly destined to lead a boring and simply making hats when she is rescued from over interested soldiers by HOWL... her savior...HOWL, is an extremely vain, self confident and womanizing wizard who lives his moving castle powered by CALCIFER....SOPHIE ends up offending HOWL'S rival... the WITCH OF THE WASTE, and gets turned into a 90 year old women for her offense...devastated, SOPHIE packs up her stuff and leads away from her home to seek a way to return to normal... and that's the end of the simple life for SOPHIE...this legendary animator HAYAO MIYAZAKI'S most adult centric film... it retains his flare for amusing and cute characters but the story is quite dark at its heart.. the movie earned $14.2 miilion (us) on it's first two days and broke the Japanese records for an opening held by his last features.

OTHER JAPANESE ANIME FROM STUDIO GHIBLI:
1. TOKYO GODFATHERS
2. PRINCESS MONONOKE
3. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO
4. SPIRITED AWAY
5. CASTLE IN THE SKY
6. GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
7. NAUSICA OF THE VALLEY OF WIND
8. KIKI;S DELIVERY SERVICE
9. PORCO ROSSO
10. ON YOUR MARK
11. ONLY YESTERDAY
12. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS
13. WHISPER OF THE HEART
14. THE CAT RETURNS
15. TALES FROM EARTHSEA
16. CHIE THE BRAT
17. GAUCHE THE CELLIST
18. SHERLOCK HOUND
19. LIKE THE CLOUDS, LIKE THE WINDS

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