The film adapts an illustrated 2011 book by British fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011). Earwig and the Witch was Goro’s third film as director. He followed this with From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) and the tv series Ronja the Robber’s Daughter (2014). For many years, Goro had resisted take up the mantle of his father’s profession, which was the cause of some tension between the two of them, He eventually did so and made his debut as director with the Studio Ghibli film Tales from Earthsea (2006). Goro Miyazaki is the son of the celebrated Hayao Miyazaki, director of films like My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997) and Spirted Away (2001), a legendary name in Anime. She finds a strange ally in Bella’s familiar, the talking cat Thomas, who shows her how to read some of Bella’s spells, including being able to secretly create a potion to ward off magic and defend against Bella’s constant threat of punishment by infecting them with worms, She extracts an agreement from Bella that she will teach her magic but soon finds that her lot consists of endless work and that Bella has no intention of fulfilling her end of the bargain. Earwig is informed that she has been adopted because Bella needs another pair of hands around the house. In their home, Earwig discovers that the woman Bella Yaga is a witch and the man Mandrake is non-human and has tame demons. ![]() ![]() One day, the orphanage is visited by a strange man and woman and Earwig is selected for adoption. Ten years later, Earwig has grown up into a precocious young girl and can easily wind the matron and most others around her finger. The matron takes the child in but decides that they cannot call her Earwig and renames her Erica Wigg. An infant is abandoned on the steps of St Morwald’s orphanage accompanied by a note saying that the child’s name is Earwig and that its mother is being pursued by witches.
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