Amazing Childhood Memories

Rating: 10/10 (7 December 2012)

This cartoon I watched on VCR when I was very very young, it was actually made the year I was born. It has grown up with me ever since, and a lot of things that happen to be in reality gives me flashbacks to this wonderful film.
This Ghibli production is so meaningful to me because the music is elegantly composed, the artwork is beautifully drawn. This is much more than a cartoon. Everything in this movie is so moving, from when the two girls wait for their father to come home from work, to picking up logs from outside the howling wind, and picking up a corn for their mother. It is so real yet so fairy tale like but minus the superficial elements, it puts you through a roller coaster of emotions.
This will always be my favourite film, it shows the innocence of childhood and the simplicity of children yet how complex they can be.
The characters are brilliantly put together.
I watched this in Cantonese, and it is absolutely amazing. I've also watched it in English, and sadly, it is no match!