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Studio Ghibli Announces Next Anime Movies from Co-Founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata
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Column by Scott Green
Studio Ghibli have a history of making announcements on December 13th, and this year they announced that, for the first time since the 1988 double bill of My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies, renowned cofounders Hayao Miyazaki (Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away) and Isao Takahata (Pom Poko, My Neighbors the Yamadas) will be releasing anime films in the same season, with summer 2013 plans confirmed for Kaze Tachinu and Kaguya-hime no Monogatari.
Hints and rumors about both productions had been recently backed by November domain registrations for kazetachinu.jp and kaguyahime-monogatari.jp.
Miyazaki previously created a Kaze Tachinu manga, and the upcoming movie will work off that and Tatsuo Hori's like-named novel in exploring the life of historic World War II Zero fighter designer JirÅ Horikoshi's life. Frequent collaborator Joe Hisaishi will be returning to score the film.
As far back as 2009, the talk was that Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata's first movie since his 1999 water color style adaptation of family comic strip My Neighbors the Yamadas would be a retelling of 10th century Japanese folktale Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) - the story of moon princess Kaguya-hime, discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant. The story figured into many other anime, from Oh! Edo Rocket to to Leiji Matsumoto's Queen Millennia to Sailor Moon.
Shinichiro Ikebe, who provided the music for 1978 Miyazaki/Takahata TV anime Future Boy Conan, is attached to Kaguya-hime no Monogatari's soundtrack.
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is cool news.
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miyazaki is as dependable as pixar
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I think you mean as dependable as pixar used to be.
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Dec. 13, 2012, 10:13 a.m. CST
Another R rated Mononokesque opus please. Not that I'm complaining. Still working through the littles and it's got the best sound design yet.
by UltraTron
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Dec. 13, 2012, 10:16 a.m. CST
Oh and release the Mononoke blu already. What are waiting for friggin ragnorok?
by UltraTron
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Dec. 13, 2012, 10:19 a.m. CST
Fuck yeah! This is awesome news. Can't wait to see them, although I'm afraid I'll probably have to wait until 2014 before I'm able to see them.
by Mr. Pricklepants
I still have to see From Up on Poppy Hill as well.
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Dec. 13, 2012, 10:51 a.m. CST
Takahata's ONLY YESTERDAY is one of the greatest coming of age films ever
by beamish13
Disney are goddamn cowards for not giving it a proper release.
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Not like Brave? sure the Cars movies aren't my favorite (the kids sure like em though) But all these movies are great: Toy Story Trilogy The Incredibles Finding Nemo Up Wall-E Monsters Inc. a Bug's Life is ...ok Compared to most any other studio, Pixar is damned dependable
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FACT !
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I was relieved when I watched Brave and it reminded me a lot of Beauty and the Beast. If we were just coming off of Cars 2, I'd agree and be worried but I'm not worried about Pixar at all. Anyhow...
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At least at Ghibli they don't yank a developing film project out from the person who created it and hand it off to another director like Pixar does on a distressingly regular basis. True, Ghibli doesn't have as many directors as Pixar, but that might've been different had the director of the great "Whisper of the Heart" not died soon after completing the film. <p> <p>Of course, we'll probably have to wait until next decade to see either of these movies. What's the point of the Disney deal if they aren't a tad more punctual about giving them stateside releases? <p> <p>In other news, WHERE THE FUCK IS EVA 3.0?!?!?
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I don't know you guys. Cars 2 was really average, we can all agree on that. But Brave, in my opinion, was really weak. They had a chance to make a really great mythic tale with a supremely confident lead female character, but then it just turned into another body swapping tale. It was just too regurgitated and weak. I realize that almost every pixar movie is a rehash of another film's story, but Brave just didn't have the "heart" like the others, to use a really lame phrase. I mean, the fact that the bear transformation was completely absent in the trailers is almost like they were admitting it was a bad idea.
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You don't want it. Trust me.
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Dec. 13, 2012, 3:01 p.m. CST
unkempt_sock- the bear wasn't in the trailers to keep it a surprise
by glenn_the_frog
Considering its the big "plot twist" of the movie and it doesn't occur till halfway through the film, they kept that part of it out of the trailers, so audiences could be surprised. (Of course, tie in toy commercials ruined it all the same.) Most Pixar films are pretty good about having their trailers only show stuff from the first 20 minutes or so in fact, you rarely have ANY idea where the second half is going. (And their early trailers are usually completely new footage that doesn't appear in the movie at all.) Ratatouille focused almost entirely on Remy controlling the guy's hair and a quick gag with lightning cheese that occurs 30 seconds into the movie. Toy Story 3 commercials showed very little except that "hey, its these characters again!" and "Ken is hanging out with Barbie!" Wall-E showed nothing of the humans. Cars 2 didn't show any of the locations other than Japan. Brave didn't show the witch or the bear. UP is the exception where they emphasized the dog and the bird who don't show up until well into the movie... but then they totally hid the opening 10 minutes and still hid the villain and second half. A week or two after the movie had been out the commercials switched up and started showing the bear thing. But... not revealing stuff is something Pixar is pretty good and consistent about.
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More stuff I won't watch. Excellent.
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Dec. 13, 2012, 6:17 p.m. CST
Too bad wetstinkymudflaps, your missing out on some great stories
by Mace Tofu
by skipping a Miyazaki flick.
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Do NOT, whatever you do, actually show a "double bill of My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies" to your kids, unless you are prepared to pay for rather a lot of therapy.
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Was announced on TECH blogs about two months ago.
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That's the movie that essentially introduced Miyazaki to Western audiences (myself included).
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Dec. 14, 2012, 4:31 a.m. CST
Awesome, I'm running out of Ghibli movies to show my class.
by MotherPussBucket
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Bugger- I was really hoping it'd be Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie, but hey, if there's a chance we could see a Zero peeling away over billowing clouds like only Ghibli can create... then it'll probably be worth it. Not really interested in Takahata.... or Pixar anymore, for that matter.
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You can be damn sure this will be Miyazaki's last film. Im desperate for another fantasy film from the man himself. Now we're getting this memoire thing. Dang he should have adapted his 1980s Mononoke Hime version. http://ghiblicon.blogspot.nl/2008/03/mononoke-hime-1980-original-miyazaki.html
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Dec. 17, 2012, 2:49 a.m. CST
Pixar have been very and good, up until the past few years. Ghibli have been outstanding
by papabendi
I'm probably saying that as an adult because of the sheer imagination that goes into Ghibli films. My kids would still prefer Pixar. The last couple of Pixar films I took them to were really sub par though.
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