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HAYAO MIYAZAKI

Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 30, 2017
Hayao Miyazaki's new anime titled after 1937 book 'Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka'
Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, who has come out of retirement, is working on an animated feature film titled "Kimitachi wa Do Ikiru ka," ("How Do You Live?"), according to Studio Ghibli sources.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2017
Ghibli theme park scheduled to open on former Aichi expo site in 2020s
Aichi Prefecture said Thursday it will build a theme park based on an anime by director Hayao Miyazaki with the aim of opening it in the early 2020s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Feb 25, 2017
Legendary Japanese animator Miyazaki comes out of retirement for new film
Director Hayao Miyazaki surprises fans by coming out of retirement to work on a new film that one Studio Ghibli producer describes as “quite exciting.”
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Nov 12, 2016
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Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Oct 22, 2016
'Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind': Miyazaki's manga is as relevant today as it was in '82
In "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind," famed Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki depicts a world overrun by giant insects and a poisonous fungal forest, the fallout of an environmental cataclysm in the distant past. Humans live on in fractured kingdoms, using what remains of the technology from a bygone age.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 14, 2016
'The Red Turtle': Studio Ghibli takes an intriguing turn
Two years ago the English-speaking internet world was shaken by the news that Japan's most beloved animation house, Studio Ghibli, would be closing its doors for good. The story, which originated from a fan blog and was picked up by a variety of more reputable outlets that should've known better, quickly proved to be erroneous — the product of an overzealous translation of remarks made by one of Ghibli's co-founders, producer Toshio Suzuki.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 31, 2016
'Your Name.': Makoto Shinkai could be the next big name in anime
Japanese animators have good reason to hate the label "new Miyazaki," meaning successor to animation genius Hayao Miyazaki, who retired from feature filmmaking in 2013. First, it saddles them with fan expectations that their films will resemble — or imitate — the master's. Second, their box-office figures are compared to Miyazaki's, which soared to stratospheric heights that few rivals or successors have ever approached.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 17, 2016
'Song of the Sea': Seals, fairies and ancient folk songs
When Isao Takahata's "The Tale of Princess Kaguya" lost out to "Big Hero 6" in the competition for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards last year, it was a reminder of how thoroughly 3-D computer animation has eclipsed more traditional techniques. In the 15 years since the award was introduced, it's only been given to non-CGI films twice: Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" in 2003, and Nick Park and Steve Box's "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" in 2006.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 2, 2016
Glider modeled after Hayao Miyazaki's 'Nausicaa' anime takes to the skies
A glider modeled after a flying machine seen in a popular animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki has conducted a successful test flight before the public in Takikawa, Hokkaido.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 25, 2016
Hayao Miyazaki's films provide inspiration for You Say Party music video
You Say Party has a knack for getting pop culture references into its music videos. Past works have given visual nods to both "Twin Peaks" and "Little Red Riding Hood," and the four-piece's latest pays homage to Japanese animator and Studio Ghibli co-founder, Hayao Miyazaki.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 14, 2015
But is it art? Anime in the 'post-cinematic' age
The past 15 years have seen a boom in academic studies of anime, ranging from thematic and cultural analysis such as Susan J. Napier's "Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle" to formal theory based on technical processes and the nature of two-dimensional images such as Thomas Lamarre's "The Anime Machine." Alistair D. Swale's "Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination" covers even more ambitious ground. It asks: how is anime "art"?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2015
Famed animator plans children's nature retreat in Okinawa isle forest
Famed animated film director Hayao Miyazaki is working to build a children's facility in a virgin forest on a small island in Okinawa Prefecture to encourage kids to enjoy nature through their five senses.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Aug 26, 2015
Will another Miyazaki save Japanese cinema from Hollywood?
In the 1990s, when I was reporting on the Japanese film business for a British trade magazine, big-budget Hollywood movies with splashy special effects dominated the local box office. And the industry consensus was that resistance — in the form of made-in-Japan effects extravaganzas — was futile. Then Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 animation "Mononoke Hime" ("Princess Mononoke") not only dominated that year's summer box office by making an astounding ¥19.3 billion, but set an all-time earnings record for a film released in Japan. The tide had begun to turn against the Hollywood colossus.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Jul 15, 2015
Hayao Miyazaki cleans up Japan
Rich, famous, semi-retired people commonly take up good causes (based on whatever they define as "good"), but animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki does things differently.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 13, 2015
Famed director Miyazaki calls Abe's move to revise Constitution 'despicable'
Famed director Hayao Miyazaki made a rare public appearance Monday in Tokyo, but the one-hour news conference may not have satisfied fans of his magical animation: The subject wasn't movies but politics.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 8, 2015
Fund set up to fight Futenma plan adds director Miyazaki to leadership
Famed animation director Hayao Miyazaki will help lead a fund set up to oppose the relocation of a U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture, a source close to the fund said Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 11, 2015
Architecture museum's Ghibli exhibition a major hit in Koganei
The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in western Tokyo is drawing big crowds with a special exhibition of unique buildings and structures that appear in Studio Ghibli's famous animated films.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 17, 2014
Disney's 'Big Hero 6' reassembles Japan without the 'cultural cringe'
So we've all heard that it's hard to be a woman in Japan, but being a Japanese geek comes with its own troubles. For some, it's a life lived in front of glowing screens, a dateless existence spent in a six-mat tatami room with posters of idol group AKB48 plastered on the walls. But here's Disney's "Big Hero 6" (released in Japan as "Baymax"), a Christmas animation extravaganza that elevates the Japanese geek to superhero status. And he's cute, too.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2014
Flight of fancy as tycoon builds working model of 'Nausicaa' film's glider
An animator's fictional machine has come to life after a fan of Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" spent about 10 years and ¥100 million building a glider seen in the movie.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 20, 2014
Studio Ghibli inspires endless adaptations
As one of the most important and acclaimed animation studios in not only Japan but the world, it's unsurprising that Studio Ghibli has also inspired a wealth of printed material. Helen McCarthy's "Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation" about the studio's most celebrated director and Miyazaki's own "Starting Point: 1979-1996" essay collection, as well as numerous art books, provide fascinating insights into the workings of the studio and its creative staff, but what about those just looking to sit down with a good story?
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