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thanks, im sure it wont take you long now, to be somewhat realavent, teto rocked, all the minor pets were cool.


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From "People of the Desert":

From "Castle of Cagliostro":

In both instances, the heroine makes a daring and heroic leap to escape the clutches of a villain. Even the layout of both scenes is conspicuously similar.


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Ooh! very good similarity!


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YO!!
people of the desert...
Available in english???
Good similarity!!!!

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btw: thx for sig Freya!


No problem JRR


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quote:
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YO!!
people of the desert...
Available in english???

It's not available in English, and it's also out-of-print in Japan, but you can nevertheless find it here, thanks to
nanashi: http://rose-rote.hp.infoseek.co.jp/miya/sabaku/index.htm


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quote:
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The hamster thing is called a Nezumi.

I think that's the Japanese word for mouse.


The hamster thing was "Nezumi-bou" (Bou for baby, Nezumi for mouse. Because when Bou the giant baby turns into a mouse, he is called Nezumi-bou.)


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Isn't "chu" the Japanese for mouse? Or am I just an idiot?


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YO!!
As far as I know, Chu means medium, because there is chu totoro (medium totoro) and sho totoro (small totoro)..
Correct me if im wrong

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Fair point... maybe it has more than one meaning? I find that when I want to use translators, they give many options.


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Here's Chihiro's familys new neighbourhood:



And here's where Mr Nishi lives:



Look similar?


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Yeah, they look almost exactly the same, except the first one has more houses, and the second is just about a mirror image of the first


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I was thinking that Chihiros view has a group of trees on the right, Nishi's has a group on the left. They could almost be L and R views of 2 halves of the same panorama.

I should think there is a place in the Tokyo suburbs that inspired both locations.


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quote:
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Isn't "chu" the Japanese for mouse? Or am I just an idiot?


... Or are you perhaps -- I don't know -- thinking of the short-vowelled "chu" which is Japanese onomatopoeia (spelling?) for a kiss? I know there is a point at which Nezumi-bou kisses Zeniba (again, sp.?), Yubaba's twin. I am totally clutching at straws here!!

The tree locations are very similar. I know that Miyazaki often uses real locations for inspiration. Like, for instance, part of the Onsen in "Sp.Away" -- especially some of the internal views -- was based on Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama. (Was living there at the time, so the local paper was making a big deal of this fact. )

And Osono's bakery in "Kiki" was based on a bakery in Ross, Tasmania. Also a lot of the coastal cityscape was partially based on the city of Hobart and especially the Post Office and possibly the clocktower.


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quote:
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quote:
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Isn't "chu" the Japanese for mouse? Or am I just an idiot?


... Or are you perhaps -- I don't know -- thinking of the short-vowelled "chu" which is Japanese onomatopoeia (spelling?) for a kiss? I know there is a point at which Nezumi-bou kisses Zeniba (again, sp.?), Yubaba's twin. I am totally clutching at straws here!!


No...

Actually, I got it from various things. Like the game ChuChu Rocket. And (going a few years back) from Pokemon.

By the way, well done at spelling onomatopoeia right.


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PIKACHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!


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Sorry I can't post pics, but there is a parade of foxes in Pom poko that is very similar to the cat parade in Cat Returns.


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YO!!!
screen capture - Upload to photobucket - Post link in post!!
that how you do it!

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Cool. Still waiting for a DVD decoder download (and see if it's multi regional.) but will do.


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I will now bump this old thread with another recurring theme in Ghibli:

crying.

It happens so much, but a lot of the time, it doesn't sound like crying at all (Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle for example). One exception is in Totoro, when Mei cries.

Anyhoo, it happens a lot.


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