Regular – Hayao Miyazaki Ends Retirement to Make One More Film

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1. Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is coming out of retirement to make one more film. In an interview with T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 80-year-old Miyazaki confirmed that he would be ending his retirement to make How Do You Live?, an animated film based on the 1937 children’s book of the same name by Genzaburo Yoshino.
2. The book tells the story of a 15-year-old boy named Junichi Honda and his uncle who live together in 1930s Japan.

(1)Are you a fan of Studio Ghibli films? Which are your favorites?

(2)Have you been to the Ghibli Museum? If so, what did you think of it?

3.When asked why he returned to filmmaking, Miyazaki replied “because I wanted to.”

4. Miyazaki first announced he was retiring from filmmaking in the late 1990s, but he returned to Studio Ghibli a year later with the idea that became Spirited Away.
 

(1)Who’s the most creative person you know?

(2)Do you know anyone in their 80s who’s still working?

(3)What movies or TV shows were you into as a kid? When was the last time you watched them?

5. His latest retirement came in 2013, after the release of The Wind Rises. But Miyazaki later came out of retirement again to make the 2018 short film Boro the Caterpillar, which was made to be shown to visitors at the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo.
6. How Do You Live? was first announced in 2017, but the recent interview with Miyazaki confirms that it is being made. While it isn’t known exactly when the film will be released, Studio Ghibli said in 2020 that it hopes to release the film in the next three years.

(1)What are your thoughts on Miyazaki’s decision to come out of retirement?

(2)What books would you like to see made into a movie or TV series?

(3)Would you rather study animation or filmmaking? Why? Why not?

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