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. 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 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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