That whole sequence is inspired, all the way up to the light hopping on one leg (I vaguely remember this as an element in Eastern European Baba Yaga stories, although it may have been my dad’s bed time invention). The train’s path reminds me of the causeways that connected Tenochtitlan but slightly underwater.
Spirited Away is the only movie I’ve seen in theaters more than once and I still can’t place my finger on how it can be so unique.
The only equivalents I can think of is watching Alien for the first time five years ago or playing Morrowind as a kid.
As much as I love Spirited Away and Castle in the Sky, I've been so bummed Miyazaki hasn't returned to more adult storylines.
Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa are two of my top ten films. I'd do anything to have Miyazaki make one more.
I even bought Miramax's old marketing website and kept it online [1].
I was lucky enough to teach English in Hokkaido [2], which is where Ghibli animators drew inspiration for Princess Mononoke. It's such a beautiful place, and you can feel it in the film.
Well I just scraped the hell out of that. Some very pretty images. I know it is labor intensive, but they really put the effort into a massive amount of hand drawn frames for some of these movies and it shows in the final product.
I don't know what he did, but I gave gemini-cli the url and asked for a script. The LLMs are pretty good at this sort of simple but tedious implementation.
https://www.ghibli.jp/works/chihiro/#&gid=1&pid=43
Spirited Away is the only movie I’ve seen in theaters more than once and I still can’t place my finger on how it can be so unique.
The only equivalents I can think of is watching Alien for the first time five years ago or playing Morrowind as a kid.
Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa are two of my top ten films. I'd do anything to have Miyazaki make one more.
I even bought Miramax's old marketing website and kept it online [1].
I was lucky enough to teach English in Hokkaido [2], which is where Ghibli animators drew inspiration for Princess Mononoke. It's such a beautiful place, and you can feel it in the film.
[1] http://www.princess-mononoke.com/ (I should get SSL certs but I haven't touched it in years.)
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035689
He's "retired" like 3 times now, you might not have to do very much.
What about "The Wind Rises"?