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Earwig herself is the kind of headstrong, adventurous young protagonist that frequently anchors the studio’s movies, whether it’s Kiki’s Delivery Service or Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away.

There’s a cat character named Thomas ( Gaku Hamada or Dan Stevens), the witch’s “familiar,” that could have been plucked out of Kiki’s Delivery Service and there are tiny winged demons that flit about the house that are reminiscent of similar characters from My Neighbor Totoro or Princess Mononoke.

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It was directed by Goro Miyazaki, Hayao’s son (Hayao is credited with “planning” the film, although it’s unclear what that means exactly), who has directed several other projects for the company and is full of the kind of homespun, everyday fantasy that is present in much of the studio’s most beloved films. Little by little Earwig starts to uncover what is going on in the odd, constantly shapeshifting house and the truth behind who her mother really was.Įarwig and the Witch is full of the Studio Ghibli hallmarks you’d expect by now. Once at home, Earwig is forced to help Bella Yaga concoct incredibly mundane spells for paying customers (one is called “A Spell to Make the Bus Come on Time,” another is to help the customer’s pet win top prize at the dog show). And while Earwig and the Witch looks unlike any other Studio Ghibli film, it still packs the same magic that makes their other films so endearing.īased on a Diana Wynne Jones, the same British novelist that inspired Ghibli’s Howl’s Moving Castle, Earwig and the Witch focuses on a young, precocious orphan named Earwig ( Kokoro Hirasawa in the Japanese version, Taylor Paige Henderson in the English dub) who is plucked from the orphanage by the witchy Bella Yaga ( Shinobu Terajima or Vanessa Marshall) and her demonic cohort The Mandrake ( Etsushi Toyokawa or Richard E.

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The film debuted on Japanese television last month (their first made-for-TV movie since the tranquil Ocean Waves in 1993) and is now hitting American theaters and HBO Max. Since then, they have still been active – Miyazaki worked on a short film for his museum (as seen in the documentary Never-Ending Man) and began production on a feature they co-produced and contributed animation to the European feature The Red Turtle and now they have a brand-new feature, Earwig and the Witch. A new Studio Ghibli movie is always cause for celebration, especially given the nebulousness of the company’s current status after supposedly shutting down in the summer of 2014 following the retirement of studio co-founder and filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.

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