Miyazaki's films linger for a long time, they can't be pinned down, their meaning won't dissolve on the horizon.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Miyazaki's films linger for a long time, they can't be pinned down, their meaning won't dissolve on the horizon.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The power of invention is strong and the visual imagery matches the plot's unique vision, defining all logic of storytelling.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The power of invention is strong and the visual imagery matches the plot's unique vision, defining all logic of storytelling.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

In this way, Miyazaki avoids any simplistic 'message', preferring to present a more complicated dialectic on the environmental difficulties that continue to 'curse' us to this day.

~ Anton Bitel -

In this way, Miyazaki avoids any simplistic 'message', preferring to present a more complicated dialectic on the environmental difficulties that continue to 'curse' us to this day.

~ Anton Bitel -

While one expects a strong environmental theme in a Miyazaki work, it has never before been so heavy handed and crude.

~ Max Crawford -

While one expects a strong environmental theme in a Miyazaki work, it has never before been so heavy handed and crude.

~ Max Crawford -

My Neighbour Totoro is a true family film, both about, and for, families and while it is wholly concerned with good, decent, likeable people (as well as endearing rustic entities), it somehow avoids saccharine sentiments or a pat resolution.

~ Anton Bitel -

My Neighbour Totoro is a true family film, both about, and for, families and while it is wholly concerned with good, decent, likeable people (as well as endearing rustic entities), it somehow avoids saccharine sentiments or a pat resolution.

~ Anton Bitel -

The film is a visual treat, boasting a well-realised steampunk aesthetic and inventive visual flourishes.

~ Scott Macdonald -

The film is a visual treat, boasting a well-realised steampunk aesthetic and inventive visual flourishes.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Anime at its very finest - lightning paced, visually stunning, feverishly creative and overrun by a logic all its own.

~ Anton Bitel -

Anime at its very finest - lightning paced, visually stunning, feverishly creative and overrun by a logic all its own.

~ Anton Bitel -

The hand-drawn beauty of the images always connects to ideas, something grander that we have yet to find out about.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The hand-drawn beauty of the images always connects to ideas, something grander that we have yet to find out about.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -