Though it’s not really Japan they’re capturing, it’s more of a fable-esque idea of what Japan could have been at some point. Every hand-painted frame reflects the precision and skill with which these artists capture Japan. Before starting work on the film the artists and animators went to many of the locations the film would draw from. Not to say that this was all Miyazaki’s work though. Miyazaki did end up making Ponyo though so his fanciful films were not truly over. He saw mankind never learning and continuing to perpetrate evil, and in that mindset he began work on Princess Mononoke. How could we pretend to them that we're happy?". After finishing the film Miyazaki said that it would be difficult to make another film like the lighthearted Kiki’s Delivery Service because “It felt like children were being born to this world without being blessed. While Hayao Miyazaki made his 1992 film Porco Rosso (my other personal favourite Miyazaki film alongside Princess Mononoke) war broke out in Yugoslavia, the film being set in Croatia, and it cast such a pall over production that it influenced him to make the film’s tone more serious.
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