The Japanese Beauty In Hayao Miyazaki Animated Film

Animated movies created by Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese master ofanimation, stand for the peak of Japanese animation art and business. Carryingwith unique beauty of Japan, going with fresh and elegant images andaccompanied by mournful but not distressing music, animated movies created byhim take discussion on the relationship between man and nature, expression ofgrowth and reflection on wars as themes, which arouse audiences’ thinking. Thispaper hopes to comprehensively analyze and probe into the beauty of Japaneseculture and rich connotation cembodied in Hayao Miyazaki Animation throughdeep understanding of the beauty of Japan revealed in animated movies of HayaoMiyazaki.Taking12animated movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki as its majorresearch content, this paper respectively probes into beauty of fantasy, beauty ofnature and beauty of sentiment embodied in his animated movies.In the view of this paper, animated movies of Hayao Miyazaki mainly revealfollowing Japanese aesthetic thought:1. Beauty of fantasy created under the influence of culture of “Shinto faith”.Combining magic realism technique with traditional Japanese “Shinto faith”,movies of Hayao Miyazaki have created “the world of demons” with Japanesefeatures, in which he has ingeniously integrated characteristics of traditional“religious rites” of Japan, forming “beauty of fantasy” with Japanese features.2.“Beauty of nature” formed on the basis of Japanese traditional aesthetics.Images in animated movies created by Hayao Miyazaki have applied a largenumber of elements of “forest” and “tree”, endowed movies with profound“artistic conception” and revealed distinctive “beauty of nature”.3.“Beauty of sentiment” formed in pursuit of aesthetics of “mono no aware”.Narrative structure of animated movies of Hayao Miyazaki is complex and oftencarries with suspense. Rhythm of his movies is tense but with ease. The story is often set to be unexpected and full of twist and turn. Hayao Miyazaki skillfullyplants light sentiment on multiple narrations, making movies possess beauty ofsentiment that can touch the heart.