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How does it get you there? Through the medium of flight of course, this time pure and unadulterated by the need for mechanical devices, technology or gadgetry. The ancestors even have a magical stone that they pass down through the generations that functions as a special ticket to their exclusive world. The idea of a mythic people who are guardians of a magical other world is connected to the Confusian ideals of respect, even deification, of ancestors. Sheeta’s memories revolve strongly around the teachings of her mother and the desire to do right in her eyes. Pazu is out to redeem his father’s honour in the eyes of the world. Indeed, Pazu is driven by the desire to vindicate his father’s life mission, to prove the existence of the mythical land of Laputa. The idea of filial piety, which wikipedia defines as a virtue of respect for one’s parents, elders, and ancestors is seen in the loving affection that main characters Pazu and Sheeta hold for their deceased parents. This family connection leads into another major theme in Castle In The Sky, the relationship between child and parent. Filial Piety Image of Filiel Piety by Kan no buntei So in Castle In The Sky Laputa, as in many of his films, flight becomes a symbol both of man’s ability to transcend his mortal surroundings, and of technology’s shocking abilities to unleash man’s basest violent instincts. This yin-yang style dark and light human coexistence is perhaps even parralled by the darker, Nazi sympathising tendencies of global aviation hero Lindbergh himself. Evil, like the aeroplanes that his dad worked on were used for.įor the Miyazaki, the struggle between innate human ingenuity and human depravity is personal. In the Fandor video, Miyazaki also talks about how the technology of flight, developed by those with noble intent, inevitably gets swept up in the prevailing winds of the time and ends up being used for evil. It was as if an alien hand touched down from Mars. Bill Bryson vividly describes in his fantastic book One Sumer: America 1927 how, when Charles Lindbergh completed the first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris, he was greeted by no less than 100,000 parisians. Flying machines were, and are, a symbol of humanity’s ability to transcend its surroundings. In the Fandor video above, there is an excerpt of Miyazaki talking about his own, his family’s, and indeed humanity at large’s, relationship with the aeroplane. You can see how the aeroplane, and flight more generally, has influenced his work and become such a major motif. Hayao Miyazaki’s father was an engineer who worked on the Zero fighters. These planes struck fear into the hearts of many allied citizens and soldiers, not least of which when these flying machines were used as Kamikaze suicide bombs. Included in the models is the (in)famous Mitsubishi Zero (a 零戦 Reisen in Japanese). It’s nice to see that this notorious workaholic, who creates fantastic worlds for children, really is a kid at heart. In the video, you also see footage of Miyazaki playing with model airplanes. If you don’t believe me, watch this cut-up of flying scenes from Miyazaki films put together by Fandor: There’s probably not a film of his where someone doesn’t take to the sky at some point. Laputa is one of many of writer/director Miyazaki Hayao’s films that deal with flight.
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But let me touch on a few of the things I think are interesting. I won’t go into detail recounting the whole adventure and each of the sprawling cast of diabolical, larger than life characters. And that you know that it is about a girl from a mysterious race of people trying to get back to a mysterious world in the sky, Laputa, with the help of a peasant boy, whose father was also looking for the same mysterious land.
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MP3 Version of song MP3 version of full radio segment About the Movie Kimi Ni Nosete English Translated Version We’ve also got Japanoscope galleries of Studio Ghibli Posters, Plushies and socks. I’ve also translated other Miyazaki /Joe Hisaishi collaborations including the lyrics from the Mononoke theme song. I also performed Kimi Wo Nosete on Radio RRR in Melbourne as part of a Japanese Songs In Translation segment. To commemorate the new availability of Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli films on streaming services, I did a new translation and arrangement of the theme song Kimi Wo Nosete and an analysis of the movie Castle In The Sky.
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