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Hayao Miyazaki: Studio Ghibli
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Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata are celebrated for their feature-length animations. Miyazaki’s films revolve around complex legends, often with children navigating magical and precarious terrains; Takahata explores ordinary life with a hardheaded objectivity. Despite an underlying sense of darkness, their remarkable films impart a sense of hope for new beginnings. The two filmmakers, who became friends in the late 1960s while working at Toei Animation, collaborated on a number of projects, including Little Norse Prince Valiant (1968) and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), before joining with Toshio Suzuki to create Studio Ghibli, now an independent production company. This exhibition features thirteen films from 1968 to the present, including the North American premiere of Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle (2004).
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Miyazaki Hayao was born on January 5th, 1941 with a silver spoon in his mouth. His family manufactured parts for fighter craft used in World War II. This upbringing brought about a bipolar reaction: his love of flying and his abhorrence of weapons due to guilt from his family profiting from the war. Having graduated with degrees in political science and economics from Gakushuin University, his obvious next move was to seek employment as an animator, and that he did at Toei Douga. It was here that he met his future wife, Ota Akemi, and his future colleague and business partner, Takahata Isao. Miyazaki and Takahata would stick together like glue from then out, eventually becoming giants in the industry and putting Studio Ghibli on the map.
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In April 1963 Miyazaki became an animator for Toei Animation, which produced both theatrical motion pictures and television series. He was taught the basics of animation and began at the bottom of the artistic hierarchy, laboriously filling in the cel-by-cel movements of characters and objects; he found the work enjoyable and therein probably learned to accurately draw characters. He impressed many of his coworkers with his fertile imagination and proposed numerous story ideas to the studio; he quickly became a leader in the animators' union. In 1964 he met the animator Akemi Ota, who would become his wife in 1968. That year the first motion picture in which he played a major role was released: Prince of the Sun, a collaboration with the chief animator Yasuo Otsuka and the director Isao Takahata. Takahata would later serve as the producer for some of Miyazaki's own movies.
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Miyazaki started as an animator at Toei Douga studio in 1963. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he was able to rise up the studio ranks and dabbled primarily on television work in the late 1970s and early ’80s. His early directing work was the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds in 1984, which is a movie version of his well-known manga serial. The success of Nausicaa quickly propelled Miyazaki to becoming one of the country’s top personalities in Japanese animation. Miyazaki’s succeeding films became box office and critical successes. Many of his films released abroad not only were box-office hits but ... award winners as well.
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Miyazaki was born on January 5th, 1941 in Tokyo. He graduated from Gakushuin University in 1963 with degrees in political science and economics. The same year he got a job with Toei Animation, one of the first major animation studios in Japan. Miyazaki orginally worked as an in-betweener, but received notice in the studio when he pitched an alternate ending for the studio's film Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon. The ending was used and Miyazaki began moving up in the studio. For many of Toei's films after that, Miyazaki worked as a key animator, concept artitst, scene designer, storyboarder, and character developer.
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The newest movie from Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli is Tales from EarthSea (website). It was adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Farthest Shore. It's already been released in Japan last summer and will be released in France this month. But due to licensing problems, the movie may not be released in North America until 2009. *sigh*
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