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No-Face (顔無し)
“Ah… Ah... Ah.„~ No Face
The Kaonashi, or No-Face as he tends to be called in the English releases of the film, is the secondary antagonist of Studio Ghibli's 12th full-length animated feature film Spirited Away.
No-Face is a dark spirit who resembles a black humanoid being with a white mask. He devours other spirits and can absorb their emotions into his own soul, causing him to take on their attitudes, especially negative ones, which lead to his transformation into a villain (until his redemption).
Though he never truly speaks, his moans and coos were performed by Akio Nakamura in the Japanese version, and Bob Bergen in the English dubbed version.
When I saw it I just loved it, shortly afterwards I bought it and then gave it away.
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87th Academy Awards : Best Animated Feature Film
Don Hall + Chris Williams + Roy Conli for Big Hero 6
Anthony Stacchi + Graham Annable + Travis Knight for The Boxtrolls
Dean DeBlois + Bonnie Arnold for How To Train Your Dragon 2
Tomm Moore + Paul Young for Song Of The Sea
Isao Takahata + Yoshiaki Nishimura for The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya
Princess Kaguya from her divine arboreal arrival, accelerated growth from infancy to womanhood, and mandated celestial departure…
Le Roi et l'Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) by Paul Grimault.
The first animated surrealist film.
An animator's animated film. The King and the Mockingbird was at the forefront of animation as an art. Influenced Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.
#Watching “Only Yesterday”
Director: Isao Takahata
Mellow, understated but very poignant.
Feels very simple but with a quivering sincerity that still feels very relevant.
Looks at urban life with a sense of apathy, but not hatred – while it faces quiet rural life with empathy, romanticism but also caution.
Beautiful animation, naturally. The contrast of the fuzzy, vignetted watercolors in the flashbacks and the crisp, vibrant colors from the present time work wonderfully.
The narrative maintains a sense of struggle without having a villain or antagonist that is a person, but instead it’s this ever present sense of dissatisfaction and anxieties that can’t easily be resolved.