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In one of this director’s movies, the protagonist saves a boy by using a bullroarer as a distraction before both are consumed by quicksand. Earlier in that movie by this director, the protagonist shuts down an underground garden after her father is killed by invading Tolmekians. (15[1])In another movie by this director, a birthday girl grumpily rejects a herring and pumpkin pie made by her grandmother. The US invasion of (*) Iraq inspired this director to create a movie in which the protagonist breaks free of a curse by making a deal with a fire demon but keeps her white hair. In that movie by this director, the titular character fights a war as a bird while living in an enchanted house supported by Calcifer. For 10 points, name this Japanese director (10[1])of Howl’s Moving Castle. ■END■

ANSWER: Hayao Miyazaki (the unnamed movie in the first line is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and the unnamed movie in the third line is Kiki’s Delivery Service)
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