Qunhua's week6

How do it and other Miyazaki films address the humanity/nature divide, according to Wright(2005)? Could Miyazaki's vision be described as in some sense religious (inasmuch as it converys a sense of the sacred)?

According to Wright, L.(2005), Miyazaki practiced the ancient form of Shinto to emphasis an intuitive continuity with the natural world. His works have multi-culture which is taken from American science fiction, Greek myths and British children’s literature. He created a hybrid ‘modern myth’ because of these his audiences are all over the world. Miyazaki’s works are apparent and he putted plenty of details about Japanese beliefs, practices and myths in it. Japanese earthy spirituality has been drawn from the Shinto tradition. As a theme, spiritual has been addressed in all of his works in which included Award winning “Spirited Away (2001)”, Howl’s Moving Castle (2005), and so on. An interesting things is Miyazak whose works always display a kind of nostalgia for a time when humans lived more in harmony with nature, however, he never deny the reality and current civilization

References

Wright, L.(2005). Nature spits, Giant Insects and World Trees: The nature Vision of Hayao 

       Miyazaki. In the Journal of Religion of popular culture. Volume X: Summer 2005.