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EARLY LIFE
GROWING INDEPENDENCE
STUDIO GHIBLI
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TIMELINE FILMS
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INTRODUCTION
EARLY LIFE
Japan began producing animation in 1917. People started talking about the high quality of Japanese “manga films.” But Japanese anime were costlier to produce than Western animations. They faced an uphill battle from the start.It was in this context that the first full-length theatrical film in the history of Japanese anime was released.
Momotarō: Umi no shinpei (Momotarō’s Divine Sea Warriors, B&W, 74 minutes), produced by the navy, came out just before the end of the war. This was a propagandistic film designed to lift morale and commitment to the war effort. Ōkawa Hiroshi, president of the Tōei film company the first anime studio in japan.
Miyazakiwas born but his heart was in the arts, therein on 5 January 1941, in Tokyo. He was one of four sons of Katsuji Miyazaki, who worked in the family business Miyazaki Airplanes, which manufactured parts for warplanes. Miyazaki indicated later in life that he felt guilty that his family had profited from Japan’s efforts in World War II. His dislike of militarism would be reflected in such films as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Porco Rosso. In 1958 Miyazaki became interested in animated movies, his imagination having been stirred by Hakujaden (Legend of the White Snake), a motion picture that was produced by Toei Animation and was Japan’s first color featurelength anime. At that time, however, Miyazaki wanted to be not an animator but a comic-book artist. He majored in economics and political science at Gakushuin University,
probably learned to especially as they appealed accurately draw characters; he to children; he pursued his quickly became a leader in the interest in comic books as a animators’ union. member of the university’s children’s literature club. 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
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In 1971 Miyazaki joined Takahata at A Pro, where he became involved in a failed effort to make an animated feature of Pippi Longstockings . In June 1973 he moved to Zuiyo Pictures, where he designed the scenes for Heidi: Girl of the Alps . By then he had established himself as an outstanding background-scene artist for both motion pictures and television animation. During the 1970s in addition to motion pictures he worked on manga , or graphic novels. The year 1979 saw the release of the first important picture directed by Miyazaki, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro . In the early 1980s he began one of his most popular manga series, based on the character Nausicaä, a princess living in a future where humanity is in peril of extinction.
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In 1982 the Tokuma production company asked Miyazaki, who was by then an instructor for beginning animators and a very experienced director of television cartoons, to make the Nausicaä stories into an animated feature. Miyazaki brought in Takahata to produce the film, while he wrote the screenplay, created the story board, and painted the scenes and the characters that would be used by his animation team. Work began in 1983; Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was released in 1984. The film was not a smash hit, but it proved profitable at the box office, and out of its success Tokuma created Studio Ghibli— which Miyazaki pronounced «jee-blee,» after the Italian word for a dry Saharan wind as well as the name for a World War I aircraft. Nausicaä later proved to be a landmark achievement, as it had set a precedent for much of the Japanese anime that would follow, introducing realistically drawn characters and grim themes.
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TIMELINE FILMS
Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
During her family›s move to the suburbs, a sullen -10yearold girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
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2001
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
During her family›s move to the suburbs, a sullen -10yearold girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
1986
2004
1990 1980 A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
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2010 2000 The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family›s residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
1997
2010
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami›s curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
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2013
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I don’t want to create films as a catharsis, I want to create films through which children can see and experience something new. I want to make that one unforgettable film in everyone’s childhood, something they can enjoy for at least 30 years.
- Hayao Miyazaki
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