You had better enjoy anime legend Hayao Miyazaki‘s next film, The Wind Rises, because it’ll be his last.
The news comes courtesy of Koji Hoshino, one of the heads of Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli; this is what he said at the Venice Film Festival, where Miyazaki’s eleventh and final film screened: “Miyazaki has decided that Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) will be his last film, and he will now retire.”
Moment of silence, everyone.
Miyazaki’s a pretty reclusive guy, which leads us to conclude that when he says he’s retiring, he might actually stay retired; this is unlike, say, Steven Soderbergh, who has said he would retire multiple times, yet always makes new films afterwards. Plus, at 72, who can blame Miyazaki for wanting to take it easy from now on? Read more…
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