In 2003, Japan was plunged into economic darkness, and its people needed a ray of hope. They found one in Haru Urara, a racehorse with a pink Hello Kitty mask and a career-long losing streak.
Interior Design is about a young couple, Hiroko and Akira, who have come to Tokyo to show Akira's film, carting the reels and the smoke-effects machine in the back of their car.
Disaster porn can get stale, but Studio Ghibli's entry into the tokusatsu genre is a fresh visual delight even as it reaches back to classic monster movies and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
