Leonardo DiCaprio Is Animated Fan
The Hollywood star is best known for his roles in American blockbuster movies such as Titanic and The Departed.
But Leonardo has revealed he has a passion for animated pictures, notably Anime movies, a unique style originating from Japan which exists in both hand-drawn and computer-animated form.
The quirky cartoons are widespread throughout Asia but remain relatively unknown in the Western world.
Leonardo admitted that the 2001 movie Spirited Away by iconic Anime director Hayao Miyazaki is one of his favourites in the genre.
The cartoon tells the story of a 10-year-old girl who wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters.
Leonardo especially appreciates the surreal aspects of the adventure tale, which features humans changing into animals.
"I'm a huge fan of Japanese cinema, Japanese Anime," the star revealed at a Tokyo press conference. "The Miyazaki film Spirited Away has very surreal landscapes that audiences here seem to embrace and seem to love."
Leonardo believes the passion Japanese audiences appear to have for surreal, dreamlike sequences in movies will make his latest movie Inception appealing to them.
In the Christopher Nolan movie Leonardo plays Cobb, a character who has the technology to enter other people's dreams.
Leonardo admitted how rare it is to see such a complex movie coming from a US director.
"This is a very surreal, multi-dimensional plot structure (which) needs ideas that don't come about from Hollywood very often," he added.