About Miyazaki Hayao,l think he is well-known over the world as a prominent Japanese filmmaker of many popular animated feature films,such as Princess Mononoke,which was the highest grossing film in Japan until Titanic came out a few months later,and Spirited Away and was the first anime film to win an Academy Award,topping Titanic in Japanes box office.Later,he finished Howl's Moving Castle,which was also nominated,but did not receive the award.

l personally like Miyazaki' film very much,for Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes,such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology,and the difficulty of maintaining a pacifist ethic.Like the Princess Mononoke,the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,Castle in the Sky.

My Neighbor Totoro is very popular among the children.l think that everyone of that era was impressed by the figure.They are so cute,and naive.

Spirited Away is my favorite,which is the story of a girl ,forced to survive in a bizarre spirits world,who works in a bathhouse for spirits after her parents are turned into pigs by the sorceress who owns it.The girl Chihiro becomes completely separated from everything she has known and must find her way back to reality.Upon gaining employment at the bathhouse,Chihiro's true name was seized by the owner of this world Yubaba.A common theme in folklore,symbolically kills the child Chihiro.Having lost her childhood identity,Chihiro cannot reture to reality by the way she came,she can only move forward into adulthood.The following trials and obstacles Chihiro must overcome become the challenges and lessons common in rites-of-passage and the monomyth format.In her attempt to regain her self,her "continuity with her past",Chihiro must forge a new identity.

Beneath the surface coming-of-age trope,Spirited Away contains critical commentary on modern Japanese society concerning generational conflicts,the struggle with dissolving traditional culture and customs within a global society,and environmental pollution.Chihiro,as a representation of the liminal shojo,may be seen as a metaphor for the Japanese society which,over the last decade,seems to be increasily in limbo,drifting uneasily aways from the values and ideological framework of the immediate postwar era.Just as Chihiro seeks her past identity,Japan,in its anxiety over the economice downturn occuring,sought to reconnect to past values.