If you loved Mon Mon the Water Spider, try Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Mon Mon the Water Spider

2006 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess

2010 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki

What they share

Both films are directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and they both carry the playful, tender mood tags, and they sit in Animation territory. If that's the register that drew you to Mon Mon the Water Spider, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess is

Humpty meets Baba Yaga in a water mill on a cliff. A sentient blob of dough and an escaped egg-girl flee the witch’s tower on a raft of kitchenware. Joe Hisaishi’s Vivaldi score carries the chase.

If you loved Mon Mon the Water Spider, try Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess

Mon Mon the Water Spider

Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess

What they share

What Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess is

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