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Originally Posted by longbough
Gilda, kick me. How could I forget to mention Jin-Roh?
I haven't heard of The Place Promised in Our Early Days but the title sounds fascinating.
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It's relatively new, 2004. It takes place in an alternate timeline where Japan was split up after WW2 like Germany, with the US controlling the southern half and The Union the northern half, with a cold war raging around the divide, as in Germany and Korea. The Union has built a tower on its side of the strait dividing the northern and souther Islands and a group of teenagers are determined to build a plane and fly there.
It's a gorgeous movie. That word gets overused, but it isn't here. The backgrounds often look like a detailed oil painting. The plot is straightforward sf. It has big eyed children, but no robots or superheroes. Really good stuff.
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Miyazaki ... I'll never waste an opportunity to praise this storyteller. His stories cover a lot of uncharted emotional territory ... sometimes it takes more than one viewing to appreciate, but they resonate with the strength of childhood memories. Oh, I forgot to mention "My Neighbor Totoro."
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Miyazaki is one name that is on my must see list.
Gilda