What looked like an ending became something else - the continuing tale of two studios, one rising and going unexpected places, one resurrected and returning to its focus on a revered filmmaker, all set against the backdrop of a Japanese animation industry thriving as never before. From the Archive: Read Elvis Mitchell’s 2002 review of Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning masterpiece “Spirited Away.What to Watch: Several movies by Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, his animation house, are on HBO Max.
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He would create his own studio, pulling some of the top talent from Ghibli’s deep stable of feature film animators. Could Miyazaki - one of the world’s most ambitious and tireless directors - actually stay retired? And what would all those other creative minds at the studio do?įor the Ghibli producer Yoshiaki Nishimura (“Princess Kaguya”) the answer was simple, at least in theory. The decision also raised other questions. Not long after the legendary anime director, now 78, announced in 2013 that he was calling it quits (not his first time), his movie home, Studio Ghibli, halted production, ending its three-decade run with two Oscar-nominated films, “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” and “When Marnie Was There.” The news left animation fans across the globe wondering if the makers of such beloved films as “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away” would ever release another feature. What happens when the creative heart and soul of a studio retires? If it’s Hayao Miyazaki, the studio shutters with him.