When Hayao Miyazaki pitched “The Boy and the Heron” to Studio Ghibli co-founder/producer Toshio Suzuki in 2016, he asked permission to make the story about himself. This took Suzuki — his friend of nearly 40 years at the time — by surprise; the legendary anime director isn’t known for getting so personal. And yet this aligned perfectly with the notion that Ghibli films are devoted to reliving memories.
“I agree that it is Miyazaki’s most personal film because he actually told me,” Suzuki told IndieWire over Zoom through an interpreter. Not only is “The Boy and the Heron” inspired by Miyazaki’s childhood (he endured the firebombing of Japan during World War II and his father was director of the family’s aircraft manufacturing factory), but also his career at Ghibli with his two closest friends: the late studio co-founder/director Isao Takahata (“Grave of the Fireflies”) and Suzuki.
“Miyazaki is...
“I agree that it is Miyazaki’s most personal film because he actually told me,” Suzuki told IndieWire over Zoom through an interpreter. Not only is “The Boy and the Heron” inspired by Miyazaki’s childhood (he endured the firebombing of Japan during World War II and his father was director of the family’s aircraft manufacturing factory), but also his career at Ghibli with his two closest friends: the late studio co-founder/director Isao Takahata (“Grave of the Fireflies”) and Suzuki.
“Miyazaki is...
- 11/22/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Gkids releases the film in theaters on Friday, December 8.
How does someone follow one of the greatest and most profoundly summative farewells the movies have ever seen? By definition, they don’t. They retire, or they die. Or they retire and then they die. In some rare cases, it even seems like they die because they retired.
And then there’s 82-year-old filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, always in a category of his own, who’s formally or informally quit the business no fewer than seven times of the course of his illustrious career, most recently after the 2013 release of his magnum opus “The Wind Rises.” A fictionalized biopic about aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose most visionary designs were built with forced Korean labor and deployed at the wasteful mercy of Japan’s World War II campaign,...
How does someone follow one of the greatest and most profoundly summative farewells the movies have ever seen? By definition, they don’t. They retire, or they die. Or they retire and then they die. In some rare cases, it even seems like they die because they retired.
And then there’s 82-year-old filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, always in a category of his own, who’s formally or informally quit the business no fewer than seven times of the course of his illustrious career, most recently after the 2013 release of his magnum opus “The Wind Rises.” A fictionalized biopic about aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose most visionary designs were built with forced Korean labor and deployed at the wasteful mercy of Japan’s World War II campaign,...
- 9/8/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" just might be the biggest surprise of 2023, a tremendous box office success that tells the crowd-pleasing, four-quadrant story of ... J. Robert Oppenheimer's work on the atomic bomb.
In his review for /Film, Chris Evangelista called the film "a conflicting movie with an unknowable core. It's also one of the best movies of the year." Nolan's best movie, "Oppenheimer" unites virtually every white male actor in Hollywood for a film with endless talk about physics and math that still manages to be thrilling.
Nolan's crowning achievement is condensing the gargantuan 700-page biography "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" into a functional screenplay, but that meant cutting some things. This made the film a target for audiences disappointed that the film undermined the point of view of those who were wronged, attacked, harmed, and/or killed by Oppenheimer's work, like the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
In his review for /Film, Chris Evangelista called the film "a conflicting movie with an unknowable core. It's also one of the best movies of the year." Nolan's best movie, "Oppenheimer" unites virtually every white male actor in Hollywood for a film with endless talk about physics and math that still manages to be thrilling.
Nolan's crowning achievement is condensing the gargantuan 700-page biography "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" into a functional screenplay, but that meant cutting some things. This made the film a target for audiences disappointed that the film undermined the point of view of those who were wronged, attacked, harmed, and/or killed by Oppenheimer's work, like the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
- 9/7/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
It's been 10 years since Hayao Miyazaki's last feature film, "The Wind Rises" — a gentle portrait of aeronautics engineer Jiro Horikoshi whose plane creations were used in Pearl Harbor (it would make an interesting pairing with the latest release "Oppenheimer"). Now, Miyazaki's final film will release in 2023, an adaptation of Genzaburo Yoshino's 1937 novel "How Do You Live?" which will be titled "The Boy and the Heron" in the US.
/Film writer Witney Seibold says the novel, which revolves around a 15-year-old boy and his uncle, "unfolds through a series of conversations and diary entries that cover ethics and philosophy. The title is a central existential query directed toward the audience." The IMDb short summary for the film reads: "Through encounters with his friends and uncle, follows a teenage boy's psychological development. He enters a magical world with a talking grey heron after finding an abandoned tower in his new town.
/Film writer Witney Seibold says the novel, which revolves around a 15-year-old boy and his uncle, "unfolds through a series of conversations and diary entries that cover ethics and philosophy. The title is a central existential query directed toward the audience." The IMDb short summary for the film reads: "Through encounters with his friends and uncle, follows a teenage boy's psychological development. He enters a magical world with a talking grey heron after finding an abandoned tower in his new town.
- 7/31/2023
- by Caroline Madden
- Slash Film
by Cláudio Alves
Hayao Miyazaki has been announcing his retirement for over a quarter century, each new project since Princess Mononoke received like a potential swan song. Such is the case of his latest flick, the enigmatic How Do You Live?, retitled The Boy and the Heron for the Anglophone market. After a lead-up to release that saw no promo beyond the poster, the film was finally seen by the Japanese public, enjoying its big opening last week. And yet, few folks are keen on sharing details about the animated project, including the narrative's basic premise. While the rest of the world waits for an opportunity to glimpse Miyazaki's latest "last" picture, it's an excellent time to watch the not-so-final career-capper that came before, which, to my great shame, I had never seen.
This July, The Wind Rises celebrates its 10th anniversary, something worth celebrating as we prepare to see...
Hayao Miyazaki has been announcing his retirement for over a quarter century, each new project since Princess Mononoke received like a potential swan song. Such is the case of his latest flick, the enigmatic How Do You Live?, retitled The Boy and the Heron for the Anglophone market. After a lead-up to release that saw no promo beyond the poster, the film was finally seen by the Japanese public, enjoying its big opening last week. And yet, few folks are keen on sharing details about the animated project, including the narrative's basic premise. While the rest of the world waits for an opportunity to glimpse Miyazaki's latest "last" picture, it's an excellent time to watch the not-so-final career-capper that came before, which, to my great shame, I had never seen.
This July, The Wind Rises celebrates its 10th anniversary, something worth celebrating as we prepare to see...
- 7/18/2023
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
As long ago as 2013, director Hayao Miyazaki -- the animator behind multiple masterworks including "My Neighbor Totoro," "Princess Mononoke," and "Spirited Away" -- announced his retirement. His most recent film, "The Wind Rises," was his most grounded and adult to date, following the life of the aeronautics engineer Jiro Horikoshi and his gentle ambitions to make beautiful flying machines. The background irony of the film is that Horikoshi's crowning achievement was developing the type of planes that bombed Pearl Harbor. It seemed like a sophisticated and heady film to end a career with. "The Wind Rises" also came after several previous retirement attempts, although Miyazaki claimed that he was quite serious this time.
Unable to put down the pencil, however, Miyazaki will return for one more "one last round" with the upcoming film "How Do You Live?".
Perhaps daringly, or perhaps merely knowing that the Miyazaki name is enough to attract audiences,...
Unable to put down the pencil, however, Miyazaki will return for one more "one last round" with the upcoming film "How Do You Live?".
Perhaps daringly, or perhaps merely knowing that the Miyazaki name is enough to attract audiences,...
- 6/2/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Studio Ghibli today announced that renowned filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki will release a new film titled How Do You Live in Japanese theaters on July 14, 2023.
Toho is releasing the pic Japan, which will be Miyazaki’s first feature-length film in 10 years. His last release was the 2013 World War II film The Wind Rises, a fictionalized biographical film about Japanese aviator Jiro Horikoshi.
The studio did not announce any further details about the pic, but it did share a sketch on its social media accounts to accompany the news. The image appeared to be a bird with white and blue feathers.
The new feature film from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has been announced! How Do You Live (tentative title) opens in theaters in Japan on July 14, 2023. https://t.co/fHnLM6epTS
— Studio Ghibli (@GhibliUSA) December 13, 2022
In an interview with the New York Times last year, Miyazaki said the pic is...
Toho is releasing the pic Japan, which will be Miyazaki’s first feature-length film in 10 years. His last release was the 2013 World War II film The Wind Rises, a fictionalized biographical film about Japanese aviator Jiro Horikoshi.
The studio did not announce any further details about the pic, but it did share a sketch on its social media accounts to accompany the news. The image appeared to be a bird with white and blue feathers.
The new feature film from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has been announced! How Do You Live (tentative title) opens in theaters in Japan on July 14, 2023. https://t.co/fHnLM6epTS
— Studio Ghibli (@GhibliUSA) December 13, 2022
In an interview with the New York Times last year, Miyazaki said the pic is...
- 12/13/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki revealed he is coming out of retirement once again to make a feature length animated film.
In an interview with the New York Times, Miyazaki didn’t give much detail about the film, but mentioned its based on Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 book How Do You Live? The story follows a teenage boy in Tokyo who moves in with his uncle after his father dies. The novel is reportedly one of the director’s favorites.
Miyazaki didn’t confirm if the film would have the same name as the book, but when asked why he was returning to direct the film, he simply answered “Because I wanted to.” Studio Ghibli co-founder and producer Toshio Suzuki described the new film as “fantasy on a grand scale.”
Miyazaki has retired several times throughout his career with the first being in the late 1990s. However, a year later he...
In an interview with the New York Times, Miyazaki didn’t give much detail about the film, but mentioned its based on Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 book How Do You Live? The story follows a teenage boy in Tokyo who moves in with his uncle after his father dies. The novel is reportedly one of the director’s favorites.
Miyazaki didn’t confirm if the film would have the same name as the book, but when asked why he was returning to direct the film, he simply answered “Because I wanted to.” Studio Ghibli co-founder and producer Toshio Suzuki described the new film as “fantasy on a grand scale.”
Miyazaki has retired several times throughout his career with the first being in the late 1990s. However, a year later he...
- 11/26/2021
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
The Wind Rises
For our spotlight this week, we're taking off on some flights of fancy with films that feature planes. Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the inflight movies.
The Wind Rises, Netflix
If you're looking for the emotional lift of being up in the clouds then this stunning animation from Hayao Miyazaki will take you there, although casual viewers should be warned that it has a considerably more melancholic heart than much of his output and therefore suited to an older audience than the likes of Spirited Away or Ponyo. A biopic of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane inventor Jiro Horikoshi - which also pays tribute to writer Tatsuo Hori, whose words are used as the film's title - we enter the realm of Horikoshi's daydreams as a youngster before taking off on a journey that will see Japan devastated by the Second World War. Alongside the story...
For our spotlight this week, we're taking off on some flights of fancy with films that feature planes. Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the inflight movies.
The Wind Rises, Netflix
If you're looking for the emotional lift of being up in the clouds then this stunning animation from Hayao Miyazaki will take you there, although casual viewers should be warned that it has a considerably more melancholic heart than much of his output and therefore suited to an older audience than the likes of Spirited Away or Ponyo. A biopic of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane inventor Jiro Horikoshi - which also pays tribute to writer Tatsuo Hori, whose words are used as the film's title - we enter the realm of Horikoshi's daydreams as a youngster before taking off on a journey that will see Japan devastated by the Second World War. Alongside the story...
- 11/5/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
History may repeat itself, but not all heroes do. Merited for both their subjects and aesthetics, “30 Great Asian Biopics” collates national freedom fighters, last emperors, and hidden figures within the grand fabric of the past. We’ve got war epics, martial arts struggles, and simple slice-of-life films alike for your viewing pleasure. Take up the chance to learn of some of Asia’s greatest historical figures in our list below!
A number of the productions included in the list are not Asian at all, but since their main subject was an Asian, we decided to include them.
1. Mongol
Having a Russian director (Bodrov) and a Japanese protagonists (Asano) in a movie about the Mongolian Genghis Khan does not sound like a great idea, but the Russian director really made it work, presenting a movie that focuses on realism, rather than impression. The particular movie was going to a part of...
A number of the productions included in the list are not Asian at all, but since their main subject was an Asian, we decided to include them.
1. Mongol
Having a Russian director (Bodrov) and a Japanese protagonists (Asano) in a movie about the Mongolian Genghis Khan does not sound like a great idea, but the Russian director really made it work, presenting a movie that focuses on realism, rather than impression. The particular movie was going to a part of...
- 6/19/2020
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
The Wind Rises from Oscar winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki hits Blu-ray and DVD on September 22. The feature will also be available as a digital download and On Demand starting September 1.
The animated feature centers on Jiro Horikoshi (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), an airplane designer who is inspired by Italian aeronaut Caproni. Jiro’s hopes and dreams take [...]
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The animated feature centers on Jiro Horikoshi (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), an airplane designer who is inspired by Italian aeronaut Caproni. Jiro’s hopes and dreams take [...]
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- 6/15/2020
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
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