E'thin startS with TOtOrO

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Hauru no Ugoku Shiro

Most of Miyazaki's animes talk about LOVE... love in special way and condition... this is one of the wonderful love stories that attracts most of his animes' lovers.... It all begins with a coincident meeting between HOWL and SOPHIE.....

Howl was carrying Sophie running away from the evil people... flying in the sky was indeed a memorable incident for Sophie.. :)

Unfortnately, Sophe was cursed by the Witch of the Waste due to jealousy... Sophie turned into an old lady in one nite... :(

Coincidently, Sophie became the housekeeper of Howl's moving castle.. Calsifer was the one who control the structure n the movement of the moving castle... N he, usually, only listen to Howl's order...

This is one of the clip about the meeting of calsifer and Howl during his young age...

Howl turned into another creature during wars....

Taking Calsifer out of the castle will only cause destruction....

Howl was dying........ :(

Happy ending???? :P

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Hayao MIYAZAKI

Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo on January 5, 1941. He started his career in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga, and was subsequently involved in many early classics of Japanese animation. From the beginning, he commanded attention with his incredible ability to draw, and the seemingly-endless stream of movie ideas he proposed.

In 1971, he moved to A Pro 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, Conan, The Boy in Future, then moved to Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, the classic Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro.

In 1984, he released Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, 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, at which Miyazaki has since directed, written, and produced many other films with Takahata. All of these films enjoyed critical and box office successes. In particular, Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke received the Japan Academy Award for Best Film and was the highest-grossing (about US$150 million) domestic film in Japan's history until it was taken over by another Miyazaki work, Spirited Away.

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 Porco Rosso.

List of MOVIESSssss

1978 - Conan, The Boy of The Future
1981 - Sherlock Hound
1984 - Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind
1986 - Laputa: The Castle in the Sky
1988 - My Neighbor Totoro
1989 - Kiki's Delivery Service
1992 - Porco Rosso, Sora Iro no Tane [TV spot], Nandarou [TV spot]
1995 - On Your Mark [Music film]
1997 - Princess Mononoke
2001 - Spirited Away
2004 - Howl's Moving Castle
2008 - Ponyo On A Cliff

My Neighbour Totoro by Inoue Azumi

Translation: Theresa Martin

Totoro, Totoro, Totoro, Totoro,
Someone stealthily
buries nuts in the path.
When a tiny sprout grows,
[you'll find] a secret password--
the passport to the forest.
A wonderful adventure begins.

My neighbor
* Totoro, Totoro, Totoro, Totoro,
who has lived in the forest
since ancient times.
My neighbor Totoro, Totoro,
Totoro, Totoro,
only in your childhood age,
can one visit you--
a wonderous meeting.

The rain falls at the bus stop,
if the spirit is drenched,
open your umbrella for it.
The passport to the forest
opens the magic door.
My neighbor Totoro, Totoro,
Totoro, Totoro
plays an ocarina on moonlit nights.
My neighbor Totoro, Totoro,
Totoro, Totoro,
if you should ever meet,
wonderful fortune
will come to you.

*Repeat
Totoro, Totoro, Totoro, Totoro,
Totoro, Totoro, Totoro, Totoro.........

Tonari no Totoro by Inoue Azumi (jap)

Tonari no TOTORO (My Neighbor Totoro)
"Tonari no TOTORO" ending theme (1987)

TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO
dareka ga kossori
komichi ni konomi uzumete
chissana me haetara
himitsu no angou
mori e no PASUPOOTO
suteki-na bouken hajimaru

tonari no
* TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO
mori no naka ni
mukashi kara sunderu
tonari no TOTORO TOTORO
TOTORO TOTORO
kodomo no toki ni dake
anata ni otozureru
fushigi-na deai
ame furi BASU tei
ZUBUNURE OBAKE ga itara
anata no amaGASA sashite agemasho
mori e no PASUPOOTO
mahou no tobira akimasu

tonari no TOTORO TOTORO
TOTORO TOTORO
tsukiyo no ban ni OKARINA fuiteru
tonari no TOTORO TOTORO
TOTORO TOTORO
moshi mo aeta nara
suteki-na shiawase ga
anata ni kuru wa

* Repeat
TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO
TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO TOTORO.........

Singer: Inoue Azumi

Lyricist: Miyazaki Hayao

Composer/Arranger: Hisaishi Jou

Tonari no TOtOrO

The story opens with 11-year-old Satsuki and 4-year-old Mei Kusakabe riding in a truck making its way down a country road in rural 1950's Tokyo. Along with their father, a professor of anthropology at a Tokyo university, the girls are on their way to their new home in the country. Their mother is recovering from an illness, and they have bought a house to provide her a more healthy environment to recover in. A massive camphor tree towers in the sky as they approach the gateway to their home.