CINEmelma: spirited away

Per un motivo o per l'altro non ho mai seguito molto le opere di Miyazaki; Lupin e il Castello di Cagliostro mi era sembrato discreto ma senza essere un capolavoro; sono rimasto invece impressionato da Il Castello Errante di Howl, davvero una splendida favola: divertente e toccante al punto giusto.

Magari non ero dell'umore giusto, ma La Città incantata (Spirited Away) mi ha invece deluso oltremodo.
Due ore piene senza una trama che non sia banalissima, in cui tutto si riduce ad una sconclusionata parata di demoni e spiriti.
Sicuramente tutti molto significativi per chiunque conosca a menadito l'intero pantheon della mitologia nipponica, molto meno per tutti gli altri; non dubito che la storia sia molto simbolica e Tutto Il Resto^®, ma non aveva davvero bisogno di due ore per essere raccontata, e poteva essere molto più diretta (sì, si vede che ero in modalità scimunito ma un paio di spiegazioni e di eventi chiave in più non avrebbero guastato).

Pregevolissimo sotto l'aspetto tecnico, ma questo non ha mai salvato nessuno.

Diamo pure la colpa alla digestione pesante, ma per ora non vedo come possa andare oltre il 4.5.

Tags: Miyazaki, divinità, demoni, mondo alternativo, surreale, favola, fantasy, animazione.

Miyazaki, Hayao

Data di nascita: 5 January 1941
Coniuge: Akemi Ôta::(October 1965 - ?) 2 children

Ultimi lavori:

Hoshi wo katta hi (2006) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
Mizugumo monmon (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
Yadosagashi (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Koro no dai-sanpo (2002) .... [scrittore]
Mei to Koneko basu (2002) .... [scrittore]
Neko no ongaeshi (2002) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Kujira tori (2001) .... [scrittore]
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) .... (screenplay) (story) [scrittore]
StarCraft (1998) (VG) .... (thanks) (as Miyazaki Hayao) [misc]

Biografia:
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking animation in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan. The Walt Disney Company's commitment to introduce the films to the rest of the world will let more people appreciate the high-quality works he has given the movie-going public.Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tôkyô on January 5, 1941. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga studio, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible drawing ability and the seemingly endless stream of movie ideas he proposed.In 1971, he moved to the A Pro studio with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, where he was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. In 1978, he directed his first TV series, "Mirai shônen Conan" (1978) (Conan, The Boy in Future), then moved to Tôkyô Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, the classic Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979). In 1984, he released Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984), based on the manga (comic) of the same title he had started two years before. The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli (Sutajio Jiburi), at which Miyazaki has since directed, written, and produced many other films with Takahata and, more recently, Toshio Suzuki. All of these films enjoyed critical and box office successes. In particular, Miyazaki's Mononoke-hime (1997) received the Japanese equivalent of the Academy Award for Best Film and was the highest-grossing (about USD$150 million) domestic film in Japan's history at the time of its release.In addition to animation, Miyazaki also draws manga. His major work was the Nausicaä manga, an epic tale he worked on intermittently from 1982 to 1994 while he was busy making animated films. Another manga, Hikoutei Jidai, was later evolved into his 1992 film Kurenai no buta (1992).Miyazaki's latest film is Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004), based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones. Even though he has said this would be at last film, a statement he has said before after the completion of some of his earlier films, one hopes that additions to his extraordinary body of work will continue to be produced as long as he remains alive.

Trivia random: Is good friends with famed Pixar director John Lasseter
Citazione random: "When I talk about traditions, I'm not talking about temples, which we got from China anyway. There is an indigenous Japan, and elements of that are what I'm trying to capture in my work."

Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.