![]() ![]() During their journeys, they often encounter wise older women who sometimes serve as foils, sometimes as mother figures. Miyazaki's heroines tend to be plucky young women who combine guileless decency with tough-mindedness. ![]() For newcomers to his world, "Howl's Moving Castle" is a fitting introduction to one of modern cinema's great enchanters. ![]() "Howl's Moving Castle," freely adapted from a children's fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, is the latest animated tour de force from Hayao Miyazaki, the director of, among other masterpieces, "Princess Mononoke," "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away." Admirers of his work, which is wildly imaginative, emotionally intense and surpassingly gentle, will find much to appreciate in this film because it demonstrates, once again, his visual ingenuity and his sensitivity as a storyteller. ![]()
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