Is there religious significance to the resurrection scene?
Though some see a religious image in this scene, Miyazaki himself did not intend it so. In fact, he was hard on himself for giving the movie an ending which looked “religious”, and gave only 65 points out of 100 to the movie because of that. Miyazaki had a strong aversion to organized religions. He once said that he did not want to explain the world based on a god. This may be due to his background in Marxism. However, he seems to be “opening up” a bit more towards religion or spirituality these days, largely because writing the manga “Nausicaä” required him to think about philosophical questions such as “What is life?”. However, he doesn’t belong to any cult or religion.
