Japan

“Be honest to yourself; and write what is there.” These words are from the Japanese woman haiku master, Teijo Nakamura,

John Updike’s The Centaur,

We do not lack ability. We just lack courage. It all comes down to courage.

—The music was also particularly good in this film. Miyazaki: I had absolutely no involvement with the music at all. I even joked at one point that maybe we didn’t need any music in the film [laughs], but we couldn’t get away with that. So I left everything regarding music up to Takahata-san, because he knows much more about it. Jo Hisaishi had

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Without the light from the moon, the night was so dark he could barely make out the trees until he was almost bumping into them.