The award winning Japanese director and master of animation, Hayao Miyazaki is according to the Studio Ghibli president Hoshino Koji, retiring.
Koji
announced earlier today at the Venice Film Festival, that director Hayao
Miyazaki, who is now 72 years old, is preparing to leave the animation studio
and retire. Miyazaki has retired once just after Princess Mononoke came out,
but returned in 2004 to direct Howl’s Moving Castle.
Miyazaki
first started working in animation in 1961, and later on he co-founded what
would be one of the biggest and best animation studios in the world, Studio
Ghibli.
Miyazaki
delighted us with such movies as Castle In The Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988),
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Porco Rosso (1992), Princess Mononoke (1997),
Spirited Away (2001), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Pony (2008) or The Wind
Raises (2013).
If Miyazaki
is indeed going to retire then it will be one massive loss for the animation
world, but at 72 and with his extraordinary body of work, Thank You For
Everything and Enjoy.
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