Turning Point: 1997-2008

The people in the ironworks are kind, but when San breaks in, they become very brutal. They surround her, taunt her, and try to kill her. Yet they are ordinary people. Seeing this, Ashitaka does not denigrate everything about them. Even though they have these traits, he tries to accept them. And he tries somehow to control the power of the curse on

At Studio Ghibli, the old main staff is departing, and those in their early thirties will form the new core group. I will also retire from Ghibli and participate from the outside. I’m looking forward to seeing how the staff will react to me as I meddle in their work.

It may take about five years for critical assessment of this film to be made.

I didn’t make this film to be a message about the natural environment. In fact, I meant to state my objection to the way environmental issues are treated. That is, I didn’t want to split off the global environment from human beings. I wanted to include the entire world of humans and other living creatures, as well as the global environment, water,

UMEHARA: So you are saying the Jōmon folk engaged in commerce? AMINO: Obsidian for tools was collected under the premise that it would be bartered, and salt was also traded.

UMEHARA: Art becomes no good when theory is obviously displayed on its surface.

EBERT: On the very first film, how did you decide to go to work on the first day to make your film? What was in your heart at that time? MIYAZAKI: Hmm. When I start a film, I think about the long journey ahead and, with a heavy heart, I start trudging along.

The heroine of this film disavows humanity. She thinks humans are despicable beings. This is an issue relevant to many people who live in this world. They can’t consider humans to be worthy. They are beginning to think that the most despicable creatures on this earth might be human beings. This is something that was unthinkable in the nineteenth ce

MIYAZAKI: We hurry to teach young children how to write. This means we are teaching abstract thinking at an age when they learn things with their bodies. This is not good at all. We should wait.