038. The Castle of Cagliostro (Japan - 1979)

A good remedy for those who don't like the anime narrative style - like myself. It's surely one of a kind. And completely different from the everyday anime bullshit that we're used to. Seriously, all the Hayao Miyazaki's films that Jéssica is showing me are teaching me to see the true anime jewels. This is Miyazaki's first one, full of exaggerations and a way of functioning that determines its own physics. Lupin is an absurdist thief who is out to discover the secrets of the fake money notes of European casinos. But then he's entangled in other, more romantic businesses at the castle of the corrupt Count Cagliostro. Funny and clever in its peculiar way of storytelling, and the art is hilarious.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki.

Score
Cinematography: 7.5

Voice Acting: 8.5
Editing: 8.0
Sound: 9.0
Text: 7.5
Concept: 7.5
Premise Execution: 8.5

Average Score: 8.0

035. もののけ姫 / Princess Mononoke (Japan - 1997)

I had watched some bits of the film in another occasion, and had dropped it before the ending due to... well, hurrying up to do something else, I guess. And what a stupid bastard I was in doing that! Princess Mononoke is such a touching, absolutely wonderful film in many regards! Art, sound, linearity, the way the plotline sequence deals with the innovative strategy of mixing up fantasy and anti-industrialist themes... it's just a mouthful of audiovisual delight. Whilst watching the piece, I couldn't help but let tears well in my eyes, and they welled in full honesty of feelings. 'Mononoke forces you to consider both sides of environmentalist causes, dramas, struggles. And you go with the flow, as the film gently takes you with the struggle for survival of its ill-fated characters. A prominent characteristic of Miyazaki's animations. Genial.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki.

Score

Cinematography: 9.0

Voice Acting: 7.5
Editing: 9.0
Text: 8.5
Sound: 9.5
Conception: 10.0 (first time in all of Filmic Jeran thus far)
Premise Execution: 9.5

Average Score: 9.0

032. となりのトトロ / My Neighbour Totoro (Japan - 1988)

A piece of art that is both cute and contemplative. My Neighbour Totoro often engulfed me in the atmosphere that it creates of peaceful living, bucolic disinterest in luxuries, family's comprehension and loving, and the cutest little girls there have ever been in cinema. Hayao Miyazaki doesn't disappoint with all the reputation that precedes him. The wonderful lines of purity and heartiness, and the soft soundtrack that accompanies the storytelling. A true children's story in its core, but which carries you with it all along, as though you forgot you were a grown-up (if you are).

Director: Hayao Miyazaki.

Score
Cinematography: 8.5
Voice Acting: 8.0
Editing: 8.5
Sound: 8.5
Text: 7.5
Concept: 9.0
Premise Execution: 8.5

Average Score: 8.3