class and nobility

His films obsessively deconstruct aristocratic decay and the collision between old nobility and modern class struggle, most profoundly in The Leopard and Death in Venice.

Repeatedly explores social hierarchy and class privilege through fantastical narratives, questioning nobility and power dynamics in films like Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke.

His stark realist cinema directly confronts class inequality and the dignity of working-class people against systemic oppression, as seen in Kes and I, Daniel Blake.