What Makes a Hayao Miyazaki Film (and show)

I am starting a new series on animation directors and it would be criminal if I didn't start with the master himself, the great Hayao Miyazaki. Hayao Miyazaki is the greatest filmmaker ever! He has made some of the best films ever made such as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ponyo, and so much more! He has inspired so many people with his wonderful stories, believable characters and worlds, and gorgeous animation. But what makes a Miyazaki film a Miyazaki film? Lets find out! Airships and Flight Scenes Miyazaki loves planes! Or just things that fly! It doesn't even have to be a plane! It could be a made up flying object! Miyazaki does flight scenes without airships to. War The reason why there's a ton of war in Miyazaki's films might be because when was just four, his family was escaping the bombing at the ...