My Neighbour Totoro [DVD]
(Brand:Optimum Home Entertainment)
...
Price: £6.89
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Avatar - The Legend Of Aang - Book 1 - Complete [DVD]
(Brand:Paramount Home Entertainment)
...
Price: £12.51
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Spirited Away [DVD]
(Brand:Optimum)
The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history, HayaoMiyazaki's Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi) is a dazzling
film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy
worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carroll's Alice,
Chihiro plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new
home, the petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is
a deserted amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves until they
turn into pigs, and Chihiro discovers they're trapped in a resort for
traditional Japanese gods and spirits. An oddly familiar boy named
Haku instructs Chihiro to request a job from Yubaba, the greedy witch
who rules the spa. As she works, Chihiro's untapped qualities keep her
from being corrupted by the greed that pervades Yubaba's mini-empire.
In a series of fantastic adventures, she purges a river god suffering
from human pollution, rescues the mysterious No-Face, and befriends
Yubaba's kindly twin, Zeniba. The resolve, bravery and love Chihiro
discovers within herself enable her to aid Haku and save her parents.
The result is a moving and magical journey, told with consummate skill
by one of the masters of contemporary animation. --Charles Solomon...
Price: £6.00
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Princess Mononoke (Special Edition) [DVD]
(Brand:Optimum Home Entertainment)
This epic, animated 1997 fantasy has already made history as thetop-grossing domestic feature ever released in Japan, where its
combination of mythic themes, mystical forces, and ravishing visuals
tapped deeply into cultural identity and contemporary, ecological
anxieties. For international animation and anime fans, Princess
Mononoke represents an auspicious next step for its revered creator,
Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service), an
acknowledged anime pioneer, whose painterly style, vivid character
design, and stylized approach to storytelling take ambitious,
evolutionary steps here. Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original
story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of
technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara
clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great
God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects.
When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village
clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is
in fact an infectious "demon god," transformed by human anger.
Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal curse brings him into the
midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle
between man and nature. Miyazaki's convoluted fable is clearly not the
stuff of kiddie matinees, nor is the often graphic violence depicted
during the battles that ensue. If some younger viewers (or less
attentive older ones) will wish for a diagram to sort out the players,
Miyazaki's atmospheric world and its lush visual design are reasons
enough to watch. For the English-language version, Miramax assembled
an impressive vocal cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup (as
Ashitaka), Claire Danes (as San), Minnie Driver (as Lady Eboshi),
Billy Bob Thornton, and Jada Pinkett Smith. They bring added nuance to
a very different kind of magic kingdom. Recommended for ages 12 and
older. --Sam Sutherland...
Price: £6.78
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Bleach Series 4 Complete Box Set [DVD]
(Brand:Manga Home Entertainment Ltd)
...
Price: £7.29
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time [DVD]
(Brand:Manga Home Entertainment)
...
Price: £4.57
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Howl's Moving Castle [DVD] [2005]
(Brand:Optimum Home Entertainment)
Like a dream, Howl's Moving Castle carries audiences to vistas beyondtheir imaginations where they experience excitement, adventure,
terror, humor, and romance. With domestic box office receipts of over
$210 million, Howl passed Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke to become the
#3 film in Japanese history, behind his Spirited Away and James
Cameron's Titanic. Based on a juvenile novel by Diana Wynne Jones,
Howl's Moving Castle marks the first time Miyazaki has adapted another
writer's work since Kiki's Delivery Service (1989). Sophie, a
19-year-old girl who believes she is plain, has resigned herself to a
drab life in her family's hat shop--until the Witch of the Waste
transforms her into a 90-year-old woman. In her aged guise, Sophie
searches for a way to break the Witch's spell and finds unexpected
adventures. Like Chihiro, the heroine of Spirited Away, Sophie
discovers her hidden potential in a magical environment--the castle of
the title. Using CG, Miyazaki creates a ramshackle structure that
looks like it might disintegrate at any moment. Sophie's honesty and
determination win her some valuable new friends: Markl, Howl's young
apprentice; a jaunty scarecrow; Calcifer, a temperamental fire demon;
and Heen, a hilarious, wheezing dog. She wins the heart of the
dashing, irresponsible wizard Howl, and brings an end an unnecessary
and destructive war. The film overflows with eclipsing visuals that
range from frightening aerial battles to serene landscapes, and few
recent features--animated or live action--offer as much magic as
Howl's Moving Castle.--Charles Solomon...
Price: £6.01
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Kiki's Delivery Service [DVD]
(Brand:Optimum Home Entertainment)
...
Price: £6.88
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Professor Layton And The Eternal Diva [DVD]
(Brand:Manga Home Entertainment Ltd)
...
Price: £4.30
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices
Death Note Complete Box Set [DVD] [2006]
(Brand:Manga Entertainment)
...
Price: £27.91
Shipping: See Sellers Shop
Go to Shop To Pinboard Compare Prices












