Hayao Miyazaki

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Welk, Brian (September 8, 2023). "Hayao Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron' Is Studio Ghibli and GKIDS' Biggest Marketing Challenge Yet". IndieWire. Archived from the original on September 8, 2023 . Retrieved September 9, 2023.a b D'Alessandro, Anthony (September 8, 2023). "Guillermo Del Toro Makes Surprise Appearance At Toronto Film Festival For 'The Boy And The Heron' ". Deadline. Archived from the original on September 9, 2023 . Retrieved September 9, 2023. To be clear, this isn't a perfect story. When I say it's sprawling, I mean that literally. It just sort of flows outward from its beginning. It starts strong and ends strong, but there's a whole lot of sprawl in the middle that felt a bit unnecessary. The art is gorgeous as you would expect from something hand-drawn by Miyazaki, but the storytelling isn't great. It's frequently muddled. If that sounds like blasphemy, keep in mind that even Miyazaki himself says it wasn't very good at manga storytelling (and if you doubt me, just read the afterward to this book!). I must be getting old. The days of carefree and breezy, effortless reading are gone. These days you find yourself stumbling through tiny oddly spaced chunks of rest between office work and the rest of your life. My progress with this book has been slower than I'd like. But would you abandon something like this? See, I was expecting this to be more of a biography. It does have those elements and I did learn more about Miyazaki's life, but I was hoping for something more specifically about the man behind the movies, rather than just getting film criticism. The biographical elements are scattered here and there and, honestly, you don't learn much that you probably couldn't learn from reading his Wikipedia. For example, we don't get any more insight into his tumultuous relationship with his son.

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For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting audiences of all ages. His animated films, often featuring children navigating unfamiliar and challenging worlds, offer timeless explorations of youth and what it means to grow up. Celebrated and admired around the globe for his artistic vision, craftsmanship and deeply humanistic values, Miyazaki has influenced generations of artists. The universal appeal of his evocative natural settings and complex characters, many among them strong girls and young women, cuts across cultural boundaries. The nature of ecological catastrophe in Miyazaki’s worlds is unnervingly plastic. His early films, which imagine giant, incomprehensibly powerful weapons that have unleashed irreversible destruction and threaten to do so again, are nuclear-age parables for a Japan that had suffered catastrophe without precedent. Later works such as “Ponyo” and the 1997 movie “Princess Mononoke” are more singly concerned with environmentalism. But the world has caught up with Miyazaki’s apocalyptic vision, and the ecological collapses of even his older works no longer read as metaphors for past acts of destruction but as reflections of the present and predictions of the near future. There's many things to love about these eleven films and Miyasaki's distinctive worldview and aesthetic make it easy to talk about them as a cohesive group. There's the sumptuous visual style, full of lovingly-rendered landscapes (from the gorgeous countryside of Totoro to the lush forest of Princess Mononoke), cityscapes (Kiki's unforgetable city by the sea, The Wind Rises' Tokyo) and dreamscapes (the marvelous Fukai in Nausicaa, Laputa's titular island in the sky, the ethereal ocean-world of Ponyo) . There's that true sense of the fantastic that marries the enchanting to the horrifying: from Spirited Away's No Face and the undulating demons of Princess Mononoke to Nausicaa's Ohmu. Or the moral seriousness of stories unafraid to flirt with ambiguity or delve into the darkness of real-world politics (think of the bittersweet poignancy of The Wind Rises' elegy to a brutal war machine). Yet what really makes Miyasakiworld entrench itself so firmly in the hearts and minds of viewers, is, I think, the focus on the warmth of human connection. The films are full of quiet moments that highlight the easy beauty of home, family and friends: Howl's makeshift family sitting down to breakfast, Chihiro and her friends enjoying a respite in Zeniba's cottage, Mei and Satsuki finding comfort with their father in the family bath, Ponyo and Sōsuke reveling in the wonders of homemade ramen, Kiki being regaled with cake and stories at an elderly client's house. a b Loo, Egan (October 28, 2017). "Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Reveals His 'Final' Film's Title, Release Window". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 24, 2018 . Retrieved March 4, 2018.Travis, Emlyn (August 18, 2023). "Hayao Miyazaki's secretive 'The Boy and the Heron' reveals 14 photos". EW.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2023 . Retrieved September 12, 2023. A sprawling, unique post-apocalyptic story. Even if you've seen the movie of the same name, do yourself a favor and read this, Hiayao Miyazaki's most significant work of manga. Vlessing, Etan (September 6, 2023). "Boy Pursues Late Mother in Hayao Miyazaki's Animated 'The Boy and the Heron' Trailer". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 7, 2023 . Retrieved September 6, 2023.