Nausicaä, a young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects and animals of every creed. She fights to create tolerance, understanding and patience among empires that are fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources.
After discovering Ponyo trapped in a tidepool, Sosuke takes her home and does his best to make sure she's happy and well fed in the human world. Ponyo's father, a powerful underwater sorcerer, sends out mysterious tidal forces to locate his daughter. Ponyo and Sosuke may be torn apart just when they've become best friends!
Under her sorcerer father's influence, Ponyo is pulled back into the ocean against her will, and Sosuke is inconsolable. He tries to resume his normal family life, but soon an enormous storm rolls into the small seaside town where he lives. Beneath the water, Ponyo has gained new powers - and a new body!
While playing on the beach below his house five year-old Sosuke finds a goldfish named Ponyo, her head stuck in a jam jar. Sosuke rescues Ponyo and keeps her. Fascinated by each other Ponyo and Sosuke promise to stay friends until Ponyo's father, a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea, forces her to return with him to the ocean depths. What follows is an amazing underwater adventure for all ages.
A hefty compilation of essays (both pictorial and prose), notes, concept sketches and interviews by (and with) Hayao Miyazaki. Arguably the most respected animation director in the world, Miyazaki is the genius behind HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, PRINCESS MONONOKE and the Academy Award-winning film, SPIRITED AWAY.
A generous collection of concept sketches, fully rendered character and background drawings, paintings and cell images, THE ART OF HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE brings the movie into your library. Along with the stunning visuals, the book also presents interviews and comments with the production staff, including key points straight from the director.
PONYO, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's THE LITTLE MERMAID, is a hand-drawn feature-length film of breathtaking beauty and charm. The art of the film includes cels, striking watercolour and pastel concept sketches and layout pages. Interviews with production principles about their daring choice to hand draw a film in the age of CGI, and the voice-over screenplay itself, complete the package.
Large-size hardback coffee-table book featuring commentary, colour stills, sketches, storyboards, and illustrations used to envision the rich fantasy world of SPIRITED AWAY, a Disney release in September 2002. Also includes a complete English-language script.
Nausicaä, a gentle but strong-willed young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant Ohmu insects, who open their hearts to her. In her quest to create peace among empires fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources, will Nausicaä be able to interpret the Ohmus' urgent warning about the southern forest? And what of the war which rages all around her?
A fierce storm rages, and Sosuke and his mother drive against the wind. Suddenly Ponyo appears, running along the tall waves. At once fish and human, when reunited with Sosuke, Ponyo becomes a beautiful red-haired girl. The three weather the storm at Sosuke's house, while out on the ocean both Ponyo's and Sosuke's fathers encounter a vision they won't soon forget.