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自分が好きな映画や本、音楽などの感想が Amazon.com にコメントとして載っている。これらはしろうとが書いて送っているのでときどき英語が略式なこともあるが、自分が好きなものを人がどう書くかはなかなか興味深い。特にそれが日本のものである場合はなおさらである。例えば日本で大ヒットした宮崎アニメの「千と千尋の神隠し」は Spirited Away というタイトルで全米公開され、 DVD も売られている。それについて Amazon.com で 658 人が、 Amazon.ca で 508 人が、 Amazon.uk で 78 人が（計 1244 人！）コメントを 書いている。こういうものを斜め読みするのは楽しいし、英語の力も付くので試してほしい。これでリズムに乗れれば、他の宮崎アニメ、アキラ (Akira) 、攻殻機動隊（ Ghost in the Shell ）などのアニメ、ブッダなど手塚治虫のマンガ、吉本バナナなどの翻訳と色々なものにチャレンジしてみるといいだろう。見本として「千と千尋…」のコメントをいくつか載せておく。 1244 もあるので自分に難しすぎたりするのはどんどん飛ばしていくこともできるし何となく前後からわかるものは調べなくても読み進むようにするとよい。
This is the best Japanese movie I've ever seen! I watched it with ALL of my family even my cousins and we all loved it! This is a very good movie for kids & EVEN FOR ADULTS! I think you should buy it! this movie is FANTASTIC!!
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Most Japanese anime films to me are stupid and boring, but this one caught my attention due to the critique and the academy award. After watching, it turned out to be one of my favorite movies. My friends said it looked dumb, but I still thought that this masterpiece and soon-to-be classic was excellent. It was just like any other good movie to other people, but this movie, to me, was just plain awesome.
その３
I can't believe I didn't get this sooner! I would see the promotions for it on television when I was eleven when t it first came out, and I could kick myself for not getting before I became a teenager. A lot of my imagination has deteriorated within that time, but I'm really glad I ended up buying. Being a fan of "My Neighbor Tortoro" and "Kiki's Delivery Service" as a kid (which both inspired me majorly) I was wondering if Hayao Mayazaki was same one who created "Sprited Away". Doing a little research, I found out it was the same man, so I got the DVD expecting a fantasy, and got something out of my own imagination that got me back to remembering how I used to have so much fun with my own imagination back then.
Chihiro isn't too thrilled moving away to another town. New school, new friends, and a new house. It's not easy for someone who's just entering into her pre-teens. But when her parents accidentally take a wrong turn, the three find themselves in a seemingly abandoned amusement park. Her parents find some food left out in a restaurant, and when you see food you know someone has to be there. But when Chihiro comes back, she finds her parents have undergone a transformation, and strange shadows going up and down the sidewalks of the once abandoned place. Yet now that darkness has fallen, Chihiro knows something about the place is different, and if she wants to save her parents and herself, the only way out of the place is going straight through it.
I don't want to give away too much because if you give away something, you give it all away. Hayao Mayazaki must take these own ideas from his own childhood imagination, because his artwork, and where the plot goes is too amazing to be anywhere else. Being a wannabe author, Mayazaki's work has inspired, and I'm sure for any child who sees Spirited Away or any of his other breathtaking movies will be swept out of the world, and back into their own imagination.
Spirited Away definitely has a good many laughs, but for kids who don't understand them it may be good, but for the adults, they'll be laughing until they can't breathe with the inside jokes all throughout the movie. I hope Mayazaki comes out with more like this, though. He's so highly underrated it's not even funny. At least there's a good number of us who appreciate him.
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