The most theme-park-likearea of Ghibli Park — the place that you will see all over Instagram — is called Ghibli’s Grand Warehouse. From the outside, it absolutely lives up to that name. It is a big giant warehouse: hulking, boxy, utilitarian. It looks as if it might contain a m ...
In Tokyo, Iwent to see Toshio Suzuki, the yin to Miyazaki’s yang, the most important person in the company’s history aside from Miyazaki and Takahata. Although he has held many titles (producer, president), most crucially Suzuki has functioned as a kind of Miyazaki whisperer: a combination ...
We were staring at a big old-fashioned Japanese gate: red, with dark brown wood and a green tile roof. It was a structure straight out of “Spirited Away.” Waiting on the other side, framed perfectly in the doorway, was one of my favorite things in all of Miyazaki: a squat stone statue, inscrutab ...
Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park? 当世界上最伟大的(在世)动画师宫崎骏的超现实想象力变成主题公园时,你会看到什么? BySam Anderson Feb. 14, 20 ...
出国后,第一次在回国小住时,忙里偷闲去看一场电影。 总的印象,中国大陆和美国大陆的“距离”已很接近。 The cost of a movie ticket is relatively more expensive here in China (like everything else :) You have less freedom with seat choice here, which is assigned by the ticket office. (In the US, ...
Even though I was told by "the young master" that the movie was not great, I still wanted to see it with my own eyes. Well, he was right, I was not impressed at all. For one thing, once you have seen The Lord of the Rings, you expect more. For another, you knew most of these main characters would ...