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Director Hayao Miyazaki on Saturday won the Annie Award for writing in an animated feature production for the screenplay to "Kaze Tachinu" ("The Wind Rises"), the organizer of the event, dubbed "the Academy Award for animation," said. His film was also nominated for best animated ...
Director Hayao Miyazaki's swan song, "Kaze Tachinu" ("The Wind Rises"), has surpassed ¥10 billion in box-office receipts, the first anime in three years to achieve that threshold, distributor Toho Co. said. Toho said revenue from last weekend jumped 34.5 percent over the preceding weekend after ...
Hayao Miyazaki: Leave Constitution alone
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki blasted the government's push to revise the Constitution, saying that politicians without any understanding of history "shouldn't be messing" with the foundation of the country. In a magazine published last week by his production company, Studio Ghibli, the award-winning director said ...
Miyazaki turns to adult theme in new film
Award-winning animated film director Hayao Miyazaki will release his first movie in five years Saturday — a work based on the lives of Jiro Horikoshi, designer of Japan's legendary Zero fighter plane, and mid-20th-century writer Tatsuo Hori. Horikoshi was one of the "most brilliant" Japanese ...
