childishness and regression

His films explore the loss of identity and innocence through characters trapped between childhood and adulthood, particularly in 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle'.

He examines arrested development and childlike logic in adults through surreal, darkly comedic narratives that reject conventional maturity in films like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer'.

His documentaries and films probe humanity's primitive impulses and regression to primal states, exploring how civilization masks our childish, irrational nature.