Half-hidden in a public park in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka, the Studio Ghibli museum is not quite Disneyland. It's not at all like it, in fact. The size of a large detached house, it has just 10 rooms and no rides, although you can board a stuffed-cat bus if you're small enough to fit inside the windows. The best exhibits are not much more than piles of overflowing ashtrays, jumbles of books, huddles of knick knacks and dozens and dozens of drawings. It's less like a theme park, more like an exhibition celebrating the Untidy Victorian Of The Year.
According to the museum's literature, the rooms belong to an anonymous individual. The abandoned offices are there simply to show visitors how animators work. Every visitor knows that's not entirely true, though. They know that just like everything else at Studio Ghibli, this anonymous character is more than partially inspired by the passions and talents of Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps the world's pre-eminent animator. But soon, just as in his museum (whose building he designed himself), the 73-year-old Miyazaki is about to vacate his desk. The great man has retired from making films and an awful lot of people are wondering what will happen next.
Continue reading...Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/03/studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki-wind-rises
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