Keyword: rural area
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Princess Mononoke
Not every adventure movie needs to reinvent the wheel, but Princess Mononoke manages to feel fresh anyway, thanks largely to Hayao Miyazaki’s confident direction. “The fate of the world rests on the courage of one warrior.” That’s the line the studio chose to sell the film, and it doesn’t oversell it by much. Here’s the…
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My Neighbor Totoro
There are films you watch once and forget, and then there’s My Neighbor Totoro — a 1988 animation from director Hayao Miyazaki that has kept audiences talking long after the credits roll. You can tell a lot about a movie from its tagline, and “He’s your friendly neighbourhood forest spirit!” gives away the game in…