In a press release Wednesday, uber-producer Toshio Suzuki wrote about Hayao Miyazaki’s new film, announced a new CG project by Goro Miyazaki, and mused about the future of the studio. He also announced a new president for the studio. Regarding Hayao Miyazaki’s new film, Kimi-tachi …Read more »
At this weekend’s Niconico Chokaigi convention in Chiba, Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki dropped a couple of Hayao Miyazaki knowledge bombs: one good, the other not so much. First, the good news: Miyazaki’s CG short, "Boro the Caterpillar," which was announced back in 2015, will …Read more »
Promoting the upcoming Studio Ghibli co-production, The Red Turtle , and giving fans a deeper look into the Studio Ghibli body of work, a new exhibition has taken over the Roppongi Hills Plaza Mori Arts Center that showcases the 30-year history of the animation company …Read more »
On the 30th anniversary of its founding, is the venerated Studio Ghibli a shell of its former self or a thriving, evolving creative space? Yes. That’s the contradiction embodied in a new long-form interview with co-founder and über-producer Toshio Suzuki, who shed a bit of …Read more »
To coincide with the U.S. release of When Marnie Was There , director Hiromasa Yonebayashi has been interviewed by Time Out, and it’s definitely worth a read. In the interview, Yonebayashi details many aspects of the film’s production, including the differences between Marnie and his …Read more »
Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of Spirited Away and The Wind Rises , has never been a man afraid to share his opinion. Last year, amid nationwide debate among whether to alter Japan’s constitution to allow for more militarization, Ghibli published a …Read more »
We talked a lot last year about how with the release of The Wind Rises , Hayao Miyazaki’s last film (most likely) and Princess Kaguya , Isao Takahata’s last film (most likely), Studio Ghibli is preparing to pass the torch to a new generation of …Read more »
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