Studio Ghibli

Mr. Miyazaki, your films create their own world and touch many people. What is at the core of your films? Miyazaki: We don’t take a high-handed attitude about delivering messages or about the role our films play. Rather, my attitude is that I make candy to sell wholesale to the candy store. Of course this candy must taste good; I would run into tro

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But let’s return now to the more specific subject of Japanese anime. Japanese anime is the result of creating animation based on original Japanese manga stories, of appropriating manga character designs, and absorbing the power of manga; it generally has involved assembling production staffs of young men and women who are aspiring manga artists. Th

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I don’t dislike popular literature or films created for the masses, but I have this feeling that we’ve just been producing works according to an established formula. Even when I’m trying to be creative, I fear that I’m being overly influenced by the cheap, spiritually feeble, third-rate quality of the last thirty years of postwar Japanese popular c

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