#5- Now

Right now, Takahata and the director of Tales from Earthsea and Hayao's son, Goro Miyazaki, are developing projects for release after Hiromasa Yonebayashi's The Borrower Arrietty. Goro Miyazaki's next film is going to be Kokurikozaka Kara while Takahata is working on an adaption about the tale of Princess Kaguya or the bamaboo cutter, Taketori Monogatari.

#4- History part 2

Studio Ghibli and magazine Animage has had a close relationship and regularly runs exclusive articles about the studio and its members in a section titled "Ghibli Notes." On the cover of the magazine, all the artwork from Ghibli's films and other works are frequently featured.

In October 2001, the Ghibli Museum opened in Tokyo. All the exhibits based on Studio Ghibli films and shows animations, including a number of short Studio Ghibli films not available elsewhere are all display in there.

When they're licensing their films abroad, they have a very strict policy in "no-edits" that is well-known for the company. When "Nausicaä of the Valley of they Wind" was released in the America in dub, it was called the "Warriors of the Wind". The film was heavily edited and Americanized, with significant portions cut and the plot rewritten. The "no cuts" policy was highlighted when Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein suggested editing Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable. However, The Studio Ghibli producer respond by sending a katana with a simple message: "No-cuts".

#3- History part 1

The directors, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki are the studio head. At first, Miyazaki and Takahata had already had long careers in Japanese film and television animation. Suzuki was an editor at Tokuma Shoten's Animage manga magazine. Then the studio was founded after the success of "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind", written and directed by Miyazaki for Topcraft and distributed by Toei in 1984. "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" was based on the first two volumes of a serialized manga writtedn by Miyazaki for publication in Animage and a way to generate interest in an anime version. Suzuki was invited along with Takahata into the new production team on the film and founded Studio Ghibli by Miyazaki.

Miyazaki and the second most prolific director being Takahata has mainly produced films in the studio. Yoshifumi Kondo, Hiroyuki Morita, Goro Miyazaki and many other directors who worked in the Studio Ghibli has provided all of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli films with the soundtracks. Toho distributed many of Ghibli's works in Japan. The Walt Disney Company, internationally, gain the rights to all of Ghibli's output that did not have previous international distribution, including global, non-Japan distribution rights to Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

#2- Questions

Question time!

In this post I want to know how much you know about Studio Ghibli by asking you some questions! Please take your time and think deeply in the questions, also please think about them when I continue to post. Now here's the questions I want to ask:

1. Most of the film are based on fantasy and adventure, do you think they're almost similar to fairy tale? If so, what do you think the moral of the film was about?

2. Some are about the life style of one's life or teaching us a life lesson. For example, "Only Yesterday" talks about a girl's memory when she was a little girl. What does it trying to tell us by making a film about a girl's memory?

3. There are some films took place during a war period, like "Grave of the Fireflies." Do you think is a good way to understand history?

4. There are some film about war but not based on the history, like "Princess Mononoke." It tell us about war between nature and human, why does it make a film about that?

5. In "Princess Mononoke" and other films showed us many strange creatures like two-tailed wolf, no-face, etc. Do you think that they were real in the past? And how they disappear was also because of our behavior like in "Pom Poko" that drives them away?

6. When "Spirited Away" was translated to English, there were many edits and many time they wanted to cut out the most inappropriate part. For instant, the part where people get eaten by no face in "Spirited Away." However, the Studio Ghibli are very strict about no-cut policy. Do you think that some part in the film are inappropriate? Do you agree that they should be cut? Why?

Please Comment some responds. Thank you.

-Rose

# 1- Introduction

Hello! This is Rose Wang and welcome to my blog about Studio Ghibli! In this blog I will write about the works of Studio Ghibli. Most of the Asians (Japanese, Chinese, etc.) know what this is about but most of the European (American, Canadian, etc.) doesn't.

Before we start, I will briefly explain what are Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli is popular for making film and animation in Japan and other part is Asia, such as Taiwan, China, etc. It was founded in June, 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, also the producer Toshio Suzuki. Their headquarter are located in Kogani, Tokyo and their logo features the character Totoro from the "My Neighbour Totoro" film. The name of the Ghibli is based on the Arabic name for sirocco or Mediterranean wind, which the italians used for their Saharan scouting planes in the Second World War. They used Ghibli because they wanted the studio to blow a new wing through the Japanese anime industry. Over the years, they have won many achievement included the Golden Bear and an Oscar for Best Animated Feature from "Sprited Away" which is a film that was translated to English-speaking.

In this blog, I will write about my opinion about Studio Ghibli's film and show how amazing their works are.

-Rose