Famed animator Hayao Miyazaki might not be done making films, says Ghibli exec

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/miyazaki-still-working-1.6960501

by gslin • 3 years ago

24 15 3 years ago

jrajav• 3 years ago

Miyazaki has announced his retirement so many times by now over several decades that this has to be a running joke that everyone warmly entertains.

snorremd• 3 years ago

Two decades and counting. The man is nothing if not passionate about film making and animation. Whatever he, Joe Hisaishi (composer) and Studio Ghibli work on together is instant magic for me. The direction, stories, art, and music come together to create beautiful worlds and people living in them. I'm looking forward to The Boy and the Heron being released in Europe.

hooverd• 3 years ago

Miyazaki realized he would have to spend time with his son. /s

toyg3• 3 years ago

His son by now is like Prince/King Charles... He's spent most of his life in the shadow of a parent who was supposed to eventually hand him the reigns, but never really trusted him enough to actually do it.

toyg3• 3 years ago

Famed boomer might not be done making what made him successful, says person who benefits from such success.

As wonderful as it is, to have "old goatyao" still churning out stories, it is disappointing that Ghibli cannot seem to find a new way forward.

slackfan• 3 years ago

1) "boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days

2) baby boomers are the generation born post post-1945

3) Miyazaki-san was born in 1941.

yladiz2• 3 years ago

"boomer" is a pretty hatefull slur these days

What? It's absolutely not as insulting as any number of terms used against people of color, people with disabilities, women, minorities (the list can go on), and saying it's a hateful slur starts to put it in the same ballpark as those, which is very disingenuous. It's also not even that true; "ok boomer" is often used ironically within a group of friends these days, and sometimes used against an actual baby boomer, but it's not really that hateful.

pengaru• 3 years ago

2) baby boomers are the generation born post post-1945

And here I thought baby boomers were the parents who made all those babies in the post-war boom era. Those people were not born post-1945 if they were at reproductive age in the late 1940s.

toyg3• 3 years ago

Miyazaki is very much a Japanese postwar boomer, 3 or 4 years really make no difference. He went through the reconstruction period and the following building bubble, which deeply shaped his relationship with nature (and loss thereof). He grew up with the work of Tezuka Osamu. His work ethic is classic death-march postwar Japanese, graduated in the '60s and went through a traditional career at Toei. Ghibli was founded in 1985, when Japan was still riding the wave of postwar economic growth and the yen were flowing to all sorts of new businesses. He struggled to establish successors in the classic mold of postwar-boomer family-run businesses.

He is a boomer, there is no question about it. Whether you find that term offensive is not here nor there.

BookhouseGames• 3 years ago

This is my surprised face.

Famed animator Hayao Miyazaki might not be done making films, says Ghibli exec

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