‘I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children.’ – Hayao Miyazaki In 2008, whilst studio founder Hayao Miyazaki was otherwise occupied screenwriting Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi), other members of staff from Studio Ghibli – despite…
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“Your World and My World are Connected”: Studio Ghibli as Ancestral Cinema
by Georgina Brown • May 6, 2016 • 0 Comments
In June of 1985, creative visionaries Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata joined forces with producer Toshio Suzuki to create what would later grow to be one of Japan’s most highly established and globally admired animation studios. This studio, Studio Ghibli,…