Obaba: “There is no reason to live if our lives depend on a monster.”
Featuring the normal garnishes of pacifism and a bit more heavy handed engravings of environmentalism, Hayao Miyazaki displays a more blatantly crying ‘n shouting statement film as his first entry for Studio Ghibli and the beginning of his reign as the beloved Japanese studio’s golden boy to drive home one hit after another. Yet, even despite the heavier haymaker, swiftly defying any other counter hook to…