Japanese animation studio founder Miyazaki isn’t ready to retire just yet, after latest Oscar win
The Japanese studio Gibli, which just won its second Oscar for feature animation for The Boy and the Heron, has n’t yet disclosed what it plans to do next.
Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of the film industry, wo n’t, even if his next task is a brief version of a full-length picture, even at 83, who was the oldest director actually nominated in that category.
A long-time friend claims that Miyazaki is a little ashamed that he declared a decade ago that he would no more create movies citing his age.
After the most recent win, producer Toshio Suzuki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, expressed regret over telling the world that he would n’t make another movie.
A cheer came up in the small, humble building that houses the theater on the fringes of sprawling Tokyo when the Oscar was reported early on Monday in Japan, where dozens of invited media had scurried in and swooped in to see the service on a large screen.
The award for best visible results went to Japan for the first time, and it marked a great time for Japanese cinema.
The Ghibli and Godzilla movies received praise from Chinese media, noting that the nation had n’t won a double Oscars since 2009 in a row. A new chapter in Chinese cinematic history was a monograph published on Tuesday in the popular Yomiuri paper.
Japan is a significant component of Oppenheimer’s, which won seven Oscar, including best photograph. An American professor who is developing the atomic explosive is the subject of the film. The movie has n’t yet been made available in Japan.
The touching picture by Wim Wenders, Perfect Days, about a sanitation worker, was nominated for an international feature film prize, but it was unsuccessful. Chinese professional Koji Yakusho, who portrays a sweet and unhappy man who cares for vegetation and takes photos, won the Cannes Film Festival award for his performance in May of last year.
The little animation that won for War Is Over was influenced by the music of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. At the Academy Awards, their son Sean, who co-wrote the movie, praised his Asian family.
Suzuki said Miyazaki celebrated his Oscar win in secret at his salon but did not attend the theater event. When asked why Miyazaki had removed his distinctive beard, Suzuki responded,” He does n’t want to look important.”
Suzuki said he spent time determining why Ghibli’s most recent picture was chosen, and whether it was because the story, which centers on a young child dealing with his family’s illness and death, and the development of a relationship with a talking bird, made any Old Testament references. Suzuki claimed that Ghibli’s hand-drawn images captured the transformation of the bird more effectively than computer graphics.
Ghibli did n’t do much publicity for the movie, opting instead for a low-key approach for a work that was reportedly retired after ten years of production.
We believed making things we really wanted to make was acceptable, Suzuki said.
