It’s time for another edition of Miyazaki Watch, where we take a look at the recent media activities of everyone’s favorite semi-retired filmmaking legend, Hayao Miyazaki, and the son eternally destined to be in the shadows of his father, Goro. First up, Hayao, whose recent …Read more »
It’s a Miyazaki week, with both father and son popping up in the news. First to Miyazaki Senior, the recently semi-retired director of The Wind Rises . First off, Miyazaki stirred up a bit of controversy earlier in the week during a TV interview in …Read more »
In the new issue of Otaku USA , one of our features by Daryl Surat dives into the latest anime movie from Studio Ghibli, From Up on Poppy Hill . Though the film is directed by Goro Miyazaki—son of beloved Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki ( …Read more »
From Up on Poppy Hill is Studio Ghibli’s latest feature and the highest grossing box office hit in Japan in 2011. It’s the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki ( Tales From Earthsea ), son of Hayao Miyazaki, and it was shown in the U.S. …Read more »
Goro Miyazaki has to be the unluckiest man in the anime industry. His legendary parentage aside, no one could envy his position of having been promoted from landscape architect to suddenly directing a movie based on an epic fantasy universe spanning a half-dozen books. …Read more »
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