Miyazaki: Not retiring from making retirement announcements any time soon
by hexacoto
Good news for all Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli fans. Miyazaki is (once again) not retiring! The studio’s iconic film-maker’s apparent retirement was disputed when Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki talked about Miyazaki’s current project.
From the Guardian:
The news that the 72-year-old film-maker is continuing to draw was broken by Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki on the Japanese TV show Sekai-ichi Uketai Jugyō. “I think he will serialise a manga,” said Suzuki when asked how Miyazaki was enjoying his retirement. “From the beginning, he likes drawing about his favourite things. That’s his stress relief.” Suzuki then confirmed the project’s Warring States setting, but added: “He’ll get angry if I talk too much. Let’s stop talking about this.”
This marks the seventh time Miyazaki has announced his retirement, and came back each time:
- 1986: Castle in the sky
- 1992: Porco Rosso
- 1997 : Princess Mononoke
- 2001: Spirited Away
- 2004: How’s Moving Castle
- 2008: Ponyo
- 2013: The Wind Rises
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