The loudest applause on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival was for Totoro. When the Studio Ghibli logo of the magical creature from Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro” appeared on the screen Thursday night, it meant to the audience the premiere of Miyazaki’s latest and perhap
A decade ago, Miyazaki, the anime master of “Spirited Away,” “Howl’s Moving Castle,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and “Ponyo,” said he was retiring from film and that 2013’s “The Wind That Rises” would be his last film. But Miyazaki, now 82, soon after began slowly toiling away on one more. For Miyazaki, who painstakingly crafts thousands of hand drawings for a film, it’s a long and laborious process.
Miyazaki, who didn’t travel to Toronto, has himself lampooned his inability to fully step away. In journal excerpts shared in the film’s press notes, Miyazaki writes: “There’s nothing more pathetic than telling the world you’ll retire because of your age, then making another comeback.” The title of Miyazaki’s latest is “Kimi-tachi wa Do Ikeru Ka?” in Japanese, which translates as “How Do you Live?” It comes from Genzaburo Yoshino’s 1937 novel, on which the movie is loosely based. In one of his few public comments, Miyazaki was asked if his film would supply any answers to that question.told The New York Times in 2021.
The main character is Mahito Maki , a 12-year-old boy who, in the film’s opening WWII-set scenes, loses his mother in a Tokyo hospital fire. It’s not long after that his father marries Mahito’s mother’s sister and, on the country estate they have moved to, Mahito’s bitter and grief-filled life is interrupted by a gray heron that won’t leave him alone.
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