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btw- you must also watch Miyazaki's latest - <...

2009-09-25T09:14:06.573-05:00

btw- you must also watch Miyazaki's latest - Ponyo. It is a sweet, kiddish take on 'The Little Mermaid' and I'm sure your daughters will enjoy it!

I stumbled upon Miyazaki through Wikipedia- and I&...

2009-09-25T09:11:38.099-05:00

I stumbled upon Miyazaki through Wikipedia- and I'm proud to say I have every single movie he's made so far - (I prefer the subtitled to the dubbed versions, listening to japanese sounds more natural. Though if you're showing 'em to kids the English version would make more sense).
Just a nitpick- the forest spirits are a regular feature of Shintoism and are called 'kami'. So it's not improbable that their father would believe their stories, even though he doesn't get to see Totoro himself.
In fact, he himself offers a prayer to the great tree when Mei takes him there to look for Totoro.

We love Totoro in our house, too. We stumbled acr...

2009-09-24T14:17:27.812-05:00

We love Totoro in our house, too. We stumbled across a copy of the pre-Disney dub and I'm not sure we could do the Disney now. We had the opportunity to go to the Ghibli museum while we were in Japan and it's awe inspiring. Like many Japanese attractions, though, there are things for even the youngest kids and 2yo Ryanne was just as taken in as we were. I love the Japanese culture, in general, for the amount of thought they put into making things truly kid friendly. We could learn a thing or two from them.