Starting Point: 1979-1996

This was fated from the time when television, or manga, or video games, or even photo print clubs came to fill in for something children had lost and became more exciting than reality.

—You have always said that what you want to make is “films” and not “anime.” But what is popular abroad seems to be anime. What do you see as the problem with anime? MIYAZAKI: The major source for Japanese animation is manga, whose greatest characteristic is its method of expression centered on emotions. In order to express emotions, space and time

I myself haven’t been able to find any enlightenment, as I live steeped in impatience and irritations.