Title: Grandiose waste of talent
Review: Let me start out be stating that I viewed this in Japan, where I lived up until last Christmas - I read, write and naturally speak Japanese fluently. I saw this movie in the Japanese original.Further, I am a huge Studio Ghibli fan - I have just about ALL their production that has been released on DVD with ONE exception, this movie...Why didn't I like it? The main character is such a spineless, incompetent, suicidal and downright useless individual that it ruins the entire movie.All around him all other Japanese try their darndest to survive the very tough circumstances but not this guy, noooo, he just withdraws all their savings, steals from the local farmers etc. Finally his sister dies because of his incompetence. Pathetic.Brilliant animation work however - Studio Ghibli all the way.Don't waste your money on this nonsense, get another Ghibli instead.
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