Sunday, June 17, 2012

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 Miyazaki Hayao)

Born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis; he has also been named one of the most influential people by Time magazine.
Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961, when he joined Toei Animation. From there, Miyazaki worked as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry over the decade until he was able to direct his first feature film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was released in 1979. After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until his temporary retirement in 1997 following Princess Mononoke.
While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke. Princess Mononoke was the highest-grossing film in Japan—until it was eclipsed by another 1997 film, Titanic—and the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Miyazaki returned to animation with Spirited Away. The film topped Titanic's sales at the Japanese box office, also won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards and was the first anime film to win an American Academy Award.
Miyazaki's films often contain recurrent themes like humanity's relationship with nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic. The protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women. While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films like Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities. He recently co-wrote the film The Secret World of Arrietty, which was released in July 2010 in Japan and February 2012 in the United States.
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Director 

2010 Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess (short)
2008 Ponyo -download via torrent here
2006 Mizugumo Monmon (short)
2006 Yadosagashi (short)
2006 Hoshi wo katta hi (short)
2004 Howl's Moving Castle -download via torrent here
2002 Mei and the Kitten Bus (short)
2002 Koro no dai-sanpo (short)
2001 Kujira tori (short)
2001 Spirited Away -download via torrent here
1997 Princess Mononoke -download via torrent here 
1995 On Your Mark (short)
1992 Porco Rosso -download via torrent here
1989 Kiki's Delivery Service -download via torrent here
1988 My Neighbor Totoro -download via torrent here
1986 Castle in the Sky -download via torrent here

1984 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind -download via torrent here
 



Leon Trotsky on

FASCISM
What It Is and How To Fight It

First compilation under title "FASCISM: What it is and how to fight it" by Pioneer Publishers in August 1944 and reprinted in 1964. This revised compilation was published in April 1969. Transcribed for the Internet by Zodiac, the former diretor of the Marx-Engels Internet Archive, in August 1993.

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