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Inside Ghibli's Creation: 400 Days of Clash Between Hayao Miyazaki and The New Director

2010 · 72 min

A quiet, fly-on-the-wall look at creative mentorship and studio pressure, fascinating for animation fans but gentle and talky for everyone else.

Directed by
Naoki Hosoda
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Overview
Stepping closer and closer to his retirement, Hayao Miyazaki has no other means, but to choose up a new director. Ghibli's given some creative freedoms in the past, but they hardly lasted. Maro, an animator of 37 years. has done a good deed of works in his prior days. Thus, Miyazaki-san decides to appoint him as a new director for the upcoming feature of 'Arrietty the Borrower'.

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Directed by
Naoki Hosoda
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
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measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
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  • art
  • work
  • ambition
  • parenthood
  • identity
Places
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
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  • documentary
  • true story
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  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Humour3
Realism9
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Darkness2
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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Naoki Hosoda
Starring
Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Joe Hisaishi, Ryoko Hirosue
Runtime
72 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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