I chose these two movies (Spirited Away and Suzume) to represent two awesome Japanese animated movie makers, Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki) and Makoto Shinkai. The reason will be explained more below after short review about Spirited Away and Suzume.
Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film which written and directed by the Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli. It is about a story of Chihiro Ogino, a 10-year-old girl who is on her way moving to a new place with her parents, accidentally enters the world of Kami (Japanese Shinto spirit folklore). After her parents were turned into pigs for their greed over food, Chihiro who tries to find a way to help herself and her parents getaway from Kami world to return to human world, meet a lot of strange creatures and weird adventures.
Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari/ The Lock of Suzume's Door) is a 2022 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho.This film began production in 2020, written and directed by Makoto Shinkai. This film tells a story about an adventure of a high school girl and a mysterious young man who try to prevent a series of 'mystical' disasters from happening across Japan together after the 'pandora-like' door is opened.
These two movies represented the great quality of animation, rich ideas, unlimited imagination and great story telling, deep meanings also moral values which were well known to be the trademark of both legendary Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli movies and the new era brought by Makoto Shinkai movies. Spirited Away was the longest no.1 box office in Japan animation movies before it was taken by Demon Slayer Mugen Train movie and now ranked as the 2nd, meanwhile Suzume is taken the 3rd place. I have watched several movies from both of them which amazed me again and again. Therefore, I have to say their animations are on another level. You will not regret watching those movies as I personally rate it as awesome and not to be missed movies.
The illustration is a random fan art I drew based on its official poster back then.
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