“I think I can leave the computer animation to him,” Miyazaki said. “I think we should do hand-drawn animation in a more kind of casual, haphazard way to trick people. What we call tricksterism.

A far cry from the lush Disney style, this 1973 allegorical sci-fi fable, a French/Czech co-production, shows how much of an impact hand-drawn animation can make, even when constrained by a ...