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167: Hayao Miyazaki’s confusing new masterpiece

Deep Dive from The Japan Times

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The Wizard of Oz

The film follows a young boy in the midst of World War II and he is pulled into kind of a fantasy realm to save his new stepmother. "There's a lot going on, let's say it that way," says Matt Zoller Seitz. Once you go into the fantasy part, you've got what might be criticized as a greatest hits of Miyazaki, right? He's kind of checking off some of those boxes.

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