Diana Wynne Jones's 1986 fantasy novel Howl's Moving Castle has the wizardry and spells that JK Rowling has made fashionable again perhaps Miyazaki's happy conversion of her book into Japanimation will bring it to a new audience through an unexpected route. Like his other movies, it is influenced by western authors ranging from Homer to Lewis Carroll, L Frank Baum and Frances Hodgson Burnett, but this is explicitly based on the work of a British writer. Howl's Moving Castle has worked its charm on me as well: a floatingly delightful fairytale with its heart set on repealing the law of gravity. I came relatively late to his rich, kaleidoscopic fantasies, having been baffled but intrigued by his Princess Mononoke, and then utterly bowled over by his great movie Spirited Away. ![]() He is a real artist of cinema who works with hand-drawn images in the old style while everyone about him is fully immersed in computer techniques. ![]() ![]() H ayao Miyazaki is the 64-year-old Japanese animation genius whose mastery of the form has, through a piquant turn of fate, come to its full flowering just as his craft is on the verge of becoming forever obsolete.
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