Anime maestro Hayao Miyazaki still has an animated adventure film in him. At least his son Goro firmly believes in another work by his 83-year-old father.
Hayao Miyazaki announced his intention to retire after Princess Mononoke in 1997. Only to go on to deliver visually stunning and imaginative anime masterpieces such as Chihiro’s Journey to Wonderland, The Shifting Castle and, most recently, The Boy and the Heron.
Two of them even won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Can the 83-year-old anime master capture the magic of animation once again? His son Goro Miyazaki (The Poppy Mountain) believes so.
Anime adventure from the fantasy master: Will Miyazaki do it again after all?
A new exhibition dedicated to Miyazaki’s “farewell film” The Boy and the Heron recently opened at Japan’s Ghibli Museum. At the last Oscars, this film beat Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, among others. Miyazaki Jr. spoke to the Japanese press on the occasion (via Comic Book ) and told how he advises his father not to just look to the past:
I tell him, ‘Do something for future projects as well. Just doing something on past things is boring.’ That’s what he’s doing now. I don’t know if it will actually be for his next movie, but it looks like an action adventure, nostalgic and reminiscent of the old days.
(The Boy and the Heron)
This also fits in with the statement by Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, who confirmed at a press conference at the end of last year that Miyazaki has not made his last film (via Animehunch ):
He’s thinking about his new project every day, I can’t hold him off any longer, I’ve given up on that. […] I think he’ll keep going until he’s 90 years old and I’ll be by his side for that.
