Mononoke Hime

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2006)

My favorite Miyazaki movie! Maybe not as good as Spirited Away, not as innocent as the Totoro movie and not as European as Howl's Moving Castle. Maybe that's why I like it! It's filled with excellent characters, beautiful music, outstanding animation, and so on. Sometimes less is enough. The other positives are maybe that it's cannot be fully understanded - that's what I love in Miyazaki. He never explains everything, never tells us what to think, but after one of his films, we always feel that we've learnt something very important. And the biggest positive thing in him: he still believes in hand-drawn animation, and all we should do is thank him every time he makes a movie.