Miyazaki Essay

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When Miyazaki started his career he was a very ambitious with new film ideas and amazing art work. In April 1963, he got a job at Toei Studio, working as an artist on the theatrical feature anime Watchdog Bow Wow and Wolf Boy. Soon after he arrived he became a leader in a labor dispute, becoming chief secretary of Toei's labor union in 1964. He first gained recognition while working as an artist on the Toei production Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon in 1965. He didn’t like the original ending to the script and suggested his own idea, which became the ending that was used in the finished film.
In 1971, he moved to the A Pro studio with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, where he was greatly involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV series for five years. Then in 1978, he directed his first TV series; Future Boy Conan. Then he moved to Tokyo Movie Shinsha in 1979 to direct his first movie, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. Later in 1984, he released Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, based on the manga he had started two years before.
The success of the film led to the establishment of a new animation studio, Studio Ghibli, at which Miyazaki has directed, written, and produced many other films with Takahata and recently with Toshio Suzuki. All of his films were enjoyed and successful. Especially Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke it was the highest profit domestic film in Japan's history at the time of its release. And was the first animated film to win Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards. Later during his period of semi-retirement in 2001, Miyazaki spent time with the daughters of his friend. They would later become his inspiration for his next film which would become one of his biggest commerci...

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...Suzuki revealed that Miyazaki will continue to illustrate manga and is currently working on a serialized samurai series. During a New Year's Eve radio show, on December 31, 2013, Toshio Suzuki speculated that Miyazaki might revoke his latest retirement (his sixth to date). The Wind Rises is his known last film before Miyazaki acclaimed retirement.
A previous home that Miyazaki spent part of his childhood in has been transformed into a museum. The home's current resident, Asuko Thomas, says that she did not know that the house has once belonged to the family of the world renowned animator. The current owner of the house has named the gallery "Hanna", meaning "bond" and "harmony". Many elements of the house have been the inspiration for scenes in several of his films. One example is the stairs in the household, very similar to the hidden stairs in My Neighbor Totoro.

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