Ghibli's Scenery: The Japan Depicted by Miyazaki's Works

• 2008
• 1hr 35 mins
• Documentary

With the use of Miyazaki’s ekonte (storyboards) 3 travellers, actress Tsuruta Mayu, Natsukawa Yui and actor Sugimoto Tetsuta, visit the places and towns related to the images from Miyazaki’s animated works. BS-Nippon re-edited the European part that aired on their TV channel back in 2006, as well as the Japanese part which aired in 2008 on BS-Nittere. In The Japan Miyazaki depicted (95 minutes), Tsuruta Mayu visits the places of “good old Japan” and discovers profound attractions like Totoro and Spirited Away and also shows the charm of Ponyo. In A Trip of the Europe Encountered in Miyazaki’s Works (85 minutes) Natsukawa Yui visits Stockholm and Gotland to seek Koriko town from Kiki’s Delivery Service. Sugimoto Tetsuta visits Alsace region to seek the town where Sophie lives in in Howl’s Moving Castle.