Hayao Miyazaki and The Cat Returns

I have been impressed by the work of Hayao Miyazaki over and over. Tonight I watched The Cat Returns, which is nowhere near as good as his later movies such as Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro. In this movie, Miyazaki contributes the story concept, but not the actual direction. Some of his style comes through in the story, but the direction is quite different.