While two of his films, The Castle of Cagliostro and Castle in the Sky, involve traditional villains, his other films like Nausicaä and Princess Mononoke present morally ambiguous antagonists with redeeming qualities.

Miyazaki has used traditional animation throughout the animation process, though computer-generated imagery was employed starting with Princess Mononoke to give " a little boost of elegance ".

Several anime have dealt with mononoke, perhaps most famously Princess Mononoke ( where the spelling of the word is simplified as もののけ ).

She has also lent her voice to English-language localizations of Japanese anime such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as several video games, including her work as Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops ; Paz Ortega Andrade in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker ; Seth Balmore in Lost Odyssey ; Rikku in Final Fantasy X, its sequel Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II ; Norma Beatty in Tales of Legendia ; Talwyn Apogee in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and its sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty ( both of which reunite her with her Final Fantasy X and Drawn Together co-star James Arnold Taylor ) and Harley Quinn replacing Arleen Sorkin in Batman: Arkham City.

He is best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki, having composed scores for many of his films including Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ( 1984 ), Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ), My Neighbor Totoro ( 1988 ), Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), Porco Rosso ( 1992 ), Princess Mononoke ( 1997 ), Spirited Away ( 2001 ), Howl's Moving Castle ( 2004 ) and Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea ( 2008 ).

During the 80s and 90s, he worked closely with director Hayao Miyazaki on several movies from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to Princess Mononoke.

When Weinstein was charged with handling the US release of Princess Mononoke, he received a samurai sword in the mail with an attached note that read, " No cuts.

Airing in Fuji TV's Noitamina slot, Hakaba Kitarō shares an art director and animation techniques with Mononoke, and adapts the original manga version.

But the accusation was untrue: Jerzy and Kiki had been invited to stay with Tate the night of the Manson murders, and they missed being killed as well only because they stopped in New York en route from Paris because their luggage had been misdirected.

Miyazaki's fascination with flight is evident throughout these films, ranging from the ornithopters flown by pirates in Castle in the Sky, to the Totoro and the Cat Bus soaring through the air, and Kiki flying her broom.

Shortly after arriving in Paris, he met and fell in love with Kiki de Montparnasse ( Alice Prin ), an artists ' model and celebrated character in Paris bohemian circles.

Another portrait of Kiki titled " Reclining Nude with Toile de Jouy ," shows her lying naked against an ivory-white background.

Kiki Vandeweghe of UCLA was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft, but Vandeweghe refused to play for the expansion Mavericks and staged a holdout that lasted a month into the team's inaugural season.

Anchored by scoring machines Alex English and Kiki Vandeweghe at the two forward spots, Denver led the league in scoring, with English and Vandeweghe both averaging above 25 points per game.

Kenny Mellman ( of Kiki & Herb ), James Jacobs, Daniel Handler, Jon DeRosa and others have performed with The Three Terrors at these sporadic gala events.

Created by Brown, Charlie Coffey, and director and executive producer David Mirkin, it was a comedy about actress Julie Robbins ( Brown ), who in this initial story, goes to great lengths to land an interview with teen singer Kiki ( played by Kim Walker ) in the hopes of getting hired as a tabloid-TV celebrity journalist.

The remake stars Nanako Matsushima and South Korean actor Song Seung-heon, along with veteran actress Kirin Kiki.

* Elton John ( introduced by Billy Connolly ) – " I'm Still Standing ", " Bennie and the Jets ", " Rocket Man ", " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( with Kiki Dee ), " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me " ( with George Michael and backing vocals by Andrew Ridgeley ), " Can I Get a Witness " ( W 20: 50 );

In addition to his legitimate children, the duke is said to have had a son by Kiki Preston ( née Alice Gwynne, 1898 – 1946 ), an American socialite whom he reportedly shared in a ménage à trois with Jorge Ferrara, the bisexual son of the Argentine ambassador to the Court of St James's.

Kiki & Herb opened their Carnegie Hall concert with " Close To It All " ( available on CD as Kiki & Herb Will Die For You ).

He was to continue in this vein with the score for Rupert Brooke's " Wai Kiki ", the ballet Sho-Jo, or — the Spirit of Wine, A Symbol of Happiness and his orchestral composition The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan.

A sparrow confronts the then-human Kiki Aru with knowledge of the theft, and Kiki says that he did not know what it was like to be wicked before, he is glad that he is now.

When they first appear in the Forest of Gugu in the Gillikin Country, Kiki changes himself and Ruggedo into Li-Mon-Eags ( fictional creatures with the heads of lions, the bodies of monkeys, and the wings of eagles as well as having the tails of donkeys ) and lies that they've seen the people of the Emerald City plan to enslave the animal inhabitants of the Forest.

The Wizard, whom Kiki transformed into a fox, follows the Li-Mon-Eag with his magic bag, the transformed Kiki, deep into the forest where he begins transforming monkeys into giant human soldiers.

Wojnarowicz is also connected to other prolific artists of the time, appearing in or collaborating on works with artists like Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Luis Frangella, Karen Finley, Kiki Smith, John Fekner, Richard Kern, James Romberger, Ben Neill and Phil Zwickler.

A series of installations and performances with an arboreal theme were available to members of the public for free during the daytimes, with three ticketed evening concerts, including the ' Lying Down Concert ' which featured Joanna MacGregor, Kiki Dale and Ilona Jantti.

As the " Human Jukebox " he made his first UK TV appearance, standing in for Elton John's part with Kiki Dee in the hit duet Don't Go Breaking My Heart.

When I try to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance, I come up with the following ideas, which I shall express very briefly here and revert to in a later essay.

the persistent refusal to come to grips with a critical problem in one sector of American agriculture ; ;

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

Mr. McKinley examined everything with critical care, seeking something material to blame for his son's illness.

This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.

Woodward, for example, has emphasized the `` need for a broad spectrum of services, including very brief services in connection with critical situations ''.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

'' He finds it equally `` remarkable that their critical diagnosis and prognosis should have so much in common among themselves and with the critics of the twentieth century ''.

The commercial propagandist, who can't afford to be critical, gets along well with the amateur, from whom he feeds, but he frequently steps on the analyst's toes by refusing to keep his material genuine.

The girl was in critical condition with burns over 90 per cent of her body.

the observed value of F with the critical value of F determined from

( The only critical edition of Ibn Sina's autobiography, supplemented with material from a biography by his student Abu ' Ubayd al-Juzjani.

* Ampère and the history of electricity-a French-language, edited by CNRS, site with Ampère's correspondence ( full text and critical edition with links to manuscripts pictures, more than 1000 letters ), an Ampère bibliography, experiments, and 3D simulations

* Kirk G. S .; Raven, J. E. and Schofield, M. ( 1983 ) The Presocratic Philosophers: a critical history with a selection of texts ( 2nd ed.

This is a work that bridges the gap between serious symbolic meaning and the type of critical absurdity with which Jarry would soon become associated.

Aalto's furniture was exhibited in London in 1935, to great critical acclaim, and to cope with the consumer demand Aalto, together with his wife Aino, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl founded the company Artek that same year.

As with displays and instruments, critical devices that were electro-mechanical had a finite life.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

At certain critical water levels it is possible for connections with surrounding water bodies to become established.

The Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC, which was dependent on grain imports from Scythia, maintained critical alliances with cities which controlled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium.

* The following of a deer leading to a critical encounter with the enemy.

Bede's scriptural commentaries employed the allegorical method of interpretation and his history includes accounts of miracles, which to modern historians has seemed at odds with his critical approach to the materials in his history.

This, combined with Gildas's negative assessment of the British church at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions, led Bede to a very critical view of the native church.