Word: hayao
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...Hanna-Barbera, its true believers convening in comic-book stores, on the Web and at conventions like last month's Anime Weekend Atlanta. But the form needed a blockbuster and a benediction from the critics. Enter Pokemon (nuff said) and Princess Mononoke, a daunting ecological epic by anime god Hayao Miyazaki, now being released by art-house arbiter Miramax Films. All the latter movie did, in 1997, was become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history (later topped only by Titanic...
...American cartoon is simple to define. It's Disney--the Disney style of romantic realism, questing kids and cute critters. Anime is all kinds of differents. "There isn't a single artistic style in anime," says Helen McCarthy, British author of four books on the subject, including Hayao Miyazaki: Films, Themes, Artistry. "The major difference from Disney-style animation is the limitless possibilities existing in anime." If you can dream it, anime-tors can draw...
Regardless of the Hollywood roster, Princess Mononoke will still astound even seasoned anime fans. Hayao Miyazaki, writer and director of Princess Mononoke, is among the most celebrated directors of Japanese anime. Mononoke Hime, as it is called in Japan, takes place in the Muromanchi era, and begins in a remote Emishi village under attack from a Tartari Gemi, or "curse god", who curses Ashitaka, the last descendant of the Emishi royal house. In reality the last Emishi village had been taken over by the Japanese empire long before the Muromanchi era; the threat of the Emishi's extinction introduces...
...Hayao Kawai, a prominent Jungian psychologist and a member of Hashimoto's reform advisory council, traces Japan's collective dishonesty to a cultural trait. Kawai likes to joke that he is president of Japan's "Liars' Club." "There is no club at all, really," he confesses, winking. "In Japan, as long as you are convinced you are lying for the good of the group, it's not a lie." So it is that Japan is a place where doctors often withhold information from their patients, instead telling family members about a serious illness. Corporations customarily withhold potentially damaging information from...