Hayao Miyazaki certainly likes a twist. After announcing his retirement in 2013, following the release of Le Vent se Lève, the founding filmmaker of Studios Ghibli returned to the drawing board to present Le Garçon et le Héron, which was also supposed to close the director's career. But this feature film, scheduled for release in France on November 1, may not be his last.
On the occasion of the screening of Le Garçon et le Héron at the TIFF festival in Toronto, Junichi Nishioka, vice-president of Ghibli, announced that Miyazaki had already gone back to work with new ideas. At the age of 82, Japanese animation's best-known director seems far from having said his last word. But if this new project is confirmed, we'll have to be very patient. Hayao Miyazaki still works with the same classic animation method as in his early days, drawing each photogram of the feature film. And that takes a lot of time. For The Boy and the Heron, it took almost seven years of production to bring the film to fruition.
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