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00:00A year later, Goro decided to take another shot at making a film after Tales from Earthsea,

00:06with From Up on Poppy Hill, based on the manga of the same name by Tetsuro Sayama and Shizuru Takahashi.

00:15It's the story of Umi Matsuzaki, who meets and goes through the whole romance story with a boy named Shun.

00:23But then they discover one huge problem.

00:27Umi's father, who died in the Korean War, might actually be the same dad as Shun's.

00:34But while that's happening, the school clubhouse, the Cartier Latin,

00:39is about to be torn down to make room for the 1964 Summer Olympics.

00:44So now Umi, Shun, and the rest of the guys in the clubhouse must find a way to save the Cartier Latin.

00:51For the voices of the characters in the original Japanese version,

00:55Goro brought in Junishi Okada to play Shun and Aoi Teshima to play Umi's friend, Yuko.

01:02Both actors have previously been with Goro to provide the main voices in Tales from Earthsea,

01:08with Okada as Eren and Teshima as Teru.

01:11Originally, Goro really wanted to capture the realism and the historical significance of the city of Yokohama.

01:19But the only problem with it is just that making something look real is one thing,

01:25but to make it look beautiful is another playing field.

01:29So instead, he depicted the city from the eyes of the characters, a place that's entirely covered with life.

01:37On March 11th, 2011, a great disaster occurred in the east of Japan.

01:44One of the biggest earthquakes that hit the country occurred,

01:47and caused a powerful tsunami that traveled up to 10 kilometers.

01:51It would then hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and resulted a meltdown in three of its six reactors.

01:59It was an event that seriously affected the whole country, including what happened to Studio Ghibli.

02:05During that time, they were faced with a series of rolling blackouts,

02:10and to help minimize any delays in their progress, the animators would also work night shifts.

02:15The heads at Ghibli say that the animation was about 50% complete when asked by the press.

02:21However, without the disaster, they would have been more than 70% done.

02:27Goro did state that even if no one was really affected by the disaster directly,

02:32some did have to take some time in order to recover mentally.

02:36When it was released on July 16th, 2011,

02:40it really didn't do as well as the other Ghibli films with just 6.3 billion yen at the box office.

02:47This was due to competition with other major films released at the time,

02:51like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II,

02:54and a double feature of the Pokemon film, Victony, and the black hero Zekrom, and the white hero Reshiram.

03:02But in terms of critics, it actually went much better than last time with Earthsea,

03:07saying that it's gentle and nostalgic.

03:10From Up on Poppy Hill is one of Studio Ghibli's sweeter efforts,

03:14and if it doesn't push the boundaries of the genre,

03:17it remains as engagingly lovely as Ghibli fans would come to expect.

03:22For the first time since the deal in 1996,

03:26the English version was not done nor distributed by Disney.

03:31This time, Ghibli had to deal with G-Kids in order to release the film in the U.S.

03:36with award-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom as director of the English dub,

03:41which was later released in limited theaters on March 15th, 2013.

03:47The movie would go on to be nominated and win several awards during the years prior,

03:52like winning Animation of the Year at both the Tokyo Anime Award and the Japanese Academy Awards,

03:58and was nominated for an Annie for Best Writing.

04:06Afterwards, Hayao Miyazaki decided to take a new step in his filmmaking career

04:11by taking his signature fantasy element on the side

04:14in order to make room to tell a kinda true biographical story with The Wind Rises.

04:21It's the life of Jiro Horikoshi, an airplane designer who actually existed

04:27and is known to make the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

04:31Throughout his whole life, all Jiro wanted to do was to make airplanes,

04:36not for the purpose to help his country or because the pay was good,

04:40but because he has the enthusiasm of an artist

04:43and all he wants to do is to create flying pieces of beauty,

04:47even when the world was preparing itself for World War II.

04:51Like I said before, the project all began when Miyazaki was thinking of making a sequel

04:57to Ponyo, but his producer and good friend Toshio Suzuki suggested instead

05:03to make a movie based on one of his recent mangas, The Wind Has Risen.

05:08You see, back in 2009, Miyazaki made a short-lived manga

05:13that tells the story of a fictionalized biography of Jiro Horikoshi

05:17when he was making the Mitsubishi A5M in 1935 for Model Graphics Magazine.

05:24The extra elements he added for the manga were dreamlike encounters with Jiro's hero Giovanni Bastia Caproni

05:31and some scenes taken from the autobiographical novel of the same name by Tatsuo Horii,

05:37where we also see his love life, which unfortunately ended with his wife passed away from tuberculosis.

05:44As for the title, Horii took a quote and translated it from the Paul Valéry poem Le Cimetière marin.

05:52In fact, even the movie would often quote the poem as one of the central themes.

05:57Le Vent s'élève? It's a French poem.

06:01Il faut tenter de vivre.

06:03Speaking of the film, at first Miyazaki wasn't really too keen on making The Wind Rises

06:09since he only makes mangas as a hobby and there are some subject matter that aren't really suitable for kids.

06:16However, he changed his mind after someone suggested to him that kids should be exposed to things that they don't understand,

06:24which is really true when you think about it, but too bad this mentality only exists in Japan.

06:32Another reason why Miyazaki decided to make the film came from a quote from Jiro himself saying,

06:38all I wanted to do was to make something beautiful.

06:41For the character of Kastroff, some speculate that he's actually based on the real-life Soviet spy Richard Sorge,

06:48since both were working undercover as a journalist and are against Nazi Germany.

06:53This is also evident by how Kastroff gave out secret information to the Germans' plans

06:58and how he ended up being arrested in Japan just like Richard.

07:02For the voice of Jiro, the heads at Ghibli were thinking of having a non-actor,

07:07someone who can act, but not an actor professionally.

07:12As a joke, they suggested animator Hideaki Anno,

07:16but the more Miyazaki thought about it, the more that it actually sounded like a good idea.

07:22So when they brought in Anno for the part, not only did he say yes, making it the first movie where he was acting,

07:29but also his animation company, Studio Kara, came to help with the animation.

07:35Originally, it was supposed to be in surround sound with all the airplane noises coming from everywhere,

07:41but Miyazaki thought that it would be too distracting to what's happening on screen

07:46and decided to keep the movie in mono.

07:49Once the film was completed and had its first screening,

07:52Miyazaki admitted that it was his first time that he cried when watching his own movie.

07:58When it was released on July 20th, 2013,

08:01the movie didn't make as much as Miyazaki's previous works with just 16.8 billion yen at the box office,

08:08but still counts as the highest grossing film in Japan of 2013.

08:13Also, the critics seem to have highly enjoyed the film,

08:17saying that The Wind Rises is a strongly artistic look at a man who has revolutionized Japanese aviation

08:23with the beloved animation that only Studio Ghibli can deliver,

08:27a deep and powerful story, and realistically human characters.

08:32However, despite what the critics say,

08:34the movie found itself into quite the controversy with politics and anti-smoking groups.

08:40It didn't help either that Miyazaki added fuel to the fire

08:44when he publicly criticized Japan's Liberal Democratic Party for proposing to change the constitution of Japan.

08:50Since Jiro Horikoshi was responsible for creating the warplanes used during World War II,

08:56some have accused Miyazaki for making a film that looks positively on a man that created killing machines.

09:03When Disney was taking charge of the English dub,

09:06Gary Rydstrom once again returned as the director with a cast that features

09:11Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiro,

09:13Emily Blunt as Naoko,

09:15Martin Short as Kurokawa,

09:17William H. Macy as Satomi, and many more.

09:21The English version was released in selected theaters on February 21st, 2014,

09:26and then had a wide release a week later under the Touchstone Pictures label,

09:31since it did get a PG-13 rating.

09:33The movie would go on to earn several awards and nominations,

09:37some of them being from the big-name academies,

09:40including the Japanese Academy Awards for Animation of the Year,

09:44an Annie Award for Best Writing,

09:46plus two nominations for Best Character Animation and Best Animated Feature,

09:50a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film,

09:54and an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature,

09:58which it lost to Disney's Frozen.

10:00On September 6th, 2013, after he was done with The Wind Rises,

10:05Hayao Miyazaki made a press conference to announce that he is officially retiring

10:10from making any more animated features.

10:13Mm-hmm. Yeah, sure.

10:15Just like how you retired after Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

10:19Come on, Miyazaki-san, what's your plan for the next movie?

10:22It's not like Disney will advertise The Wind Rises like it's your last movie!

10:32Oh.

10:34Y-You're actually serious, aren't you?

10:37But...

10:38But we don't want you to stop.

10:40What are we gonna do with that-

10:42Ooh, look at that! The tale of the Princess Kaguya!

10:45It's the story of a bamboo cutter

10:48who finds a little girl in a bamboo shoot

10:50and decided to take her as his own.

10:52Believing that her and other surprises from the bamboo are divine gifts bestowed upon him,

10:57the bamboo cutter and his wife believe that she is destined to be a princess

11:02and heads out to the capital to do so.

11:05Now Kaguya must live her life as a princess

11:08by taking etiquette classes and dealing with suitors she doesn't like,

11:12even though all she wants to do is just live.

11:17Before the film,

11:18Iseo Takahata had never worked on a movie since the 1999 My Neighbor the Yamadas.

11:24But you might be wondering, why?

11:27Did he retire?

11:28Did he go on a career change?

11:30Actually, it's because he's just so hard to work with!

11:35You see, Takahata hates working on cell animation.

11:39He always wanted to find a different way to make his version come to life.

11:44However, cell animation is what Studio Ghibli does best.

11:49They can't just make an entirely new system for creating their features

11:53when the old one is not only fine, but works extremely well.

11:58Because of his new system,

12:00the production of the Yamadas had been nothing but pure chaos for the animators,

12:04and the movie ended up becoming a flop.

12:07Thus Takahata decided to call it quits.

12:10Ever since then,

12:11there had been plenty of producers who tried and failed to get Takahata back to work.

12:17But then came Yoshiaki Nishimura.

12:20He was determined to get another Takahata film out there,

12:24and the old director decided to do it after 18 months of convincing.

12:29Now, since Nishimura knew very well about Takahata's non-traditional approach,

12:35it's not like he could just go and get some of Ghibli's animators to work for him.

12:39I mean, I think everybody learned their lesson with the Yamadas.

12:43So he decided to go open up a new facility for Studio Ghibli

12:47with 80 freelance animators to make the film.

12:51So, with an entirely new crew at his disposal,

12:54what does Takahata had in mind for his next feature?

12:58Well, he decided to have it based on Japan's oldest folk story,

13:02The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,

13:04and he wants the animation style to look like the storyboards of Osamu Tanabe coming to life.

13:09The catch?

13:11He meant that, literally,

13:13have no clean version of the animation and keep the sketches up on display.

13:19Another catch on Takahata's new style is to have the backgrounds be painted in light watercolor,

13:25which sounds easy at first,

13:27but the thing with watercolor is that it is much less forgiving than cells.

13:33It was even proven to be a major challenge for longtime Ghibli background artist Kazuo Oga.

13:39Heck, it was also tricky to do the coloring,

13:42where it could take up to 6 hours to choose the colors in one cut,

13:47in a movie that requires 1423 cuts!

13:52As you can imagine, this is the kind of system that requires a huge amount of trial and error.

13:58But this would also come with a big problem.

14:02Originally, it was going to be released at the same time as The Wind Rises,

14:07a moment where it would have been the first time that a Miyazaki and Takahata film

14:12would have been released at the same time since My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies in 1988.

14:18However, because the production was way behind schedule,

14:22and the storyboards weren't even close to be finished,

14:25the movie was delayed for the fall of 2013.

14:29In fact, there was a moment that Nishimura had to close down the facility

14:33so that Takahata and Tanabe could focus on finishing the storyboards.

14:38Soon afterwards, when looking for a composer,

14:41Takahata thought about having Shinichiro Ikebe to score the film,

14:46but then he decided to go with veteran Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi.

14:51The total running time for this film is 138 minutes, or 2 hours and 18 minutes.

14:58This makes it the third longest animated feature ever,

15:02behind 1983's Final Yamato and 2010's The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya,

15:08which are 163 and 164 minutes respectively,

15:14or approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes each!

15:20Ain't nobody got time for that!

15:22When it was released on November 23rd, 2013,

15:25it was unfortunately a flop by making only half its budget with 2.5 billion yen at the box office.

15:33But on the bright side, it did receive universal acclaim with critics saying that

15:38by boasting narrative depth, frank honesty, and exquisite visual beauty,

15:43the tale of the Princess Kaguya is a modern animated treasure with timeless appeal.

15:49On October 17th, 2014, GKids replaced Disney again to be the North American distributors

15:56with a cast that features Chloe Grace Moretz as Kaguya and Lucy Liu as Lady Sagami.

16:02It also has James Caan and Mary Steenburgen as the voice of the bamboo cutter and his wife,

16:08whom both previously played husband and wife in the 2003 holiday comedy Elf.

16:14The film went on to get several awards and plenty of nominations,

16:18including Best Music and Animation of the Year nominees at the Japanese Academy Awards,

16:24losing the latter to Miyazaki's The Wind Rises,

16:27three Annie nominees for Best Music, Best Directing, and Best Animated Film,

16:32and an Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature,

16:36but lost again to Disney for Big Hero 6.

16:40Satisfied with making his magnum opus at the age of 78,

16:44Takahata can officially relax and mark this as his final animated feature.

16:54As the two co-founders finally made their last animated feature,

16:58it was the moment that when 2014 came along,

17:01Ghibli was about to face some changes much bigger than they expected.

17:06Along with the retirement of Miyazaki and Takahata,

17:10Toshio Suzuki decided to finally retire as producer and take on the role as the studio's general manager,

17:17with Yoshiaki Nishimura taking his old position.

17:20On July 19th, 2014, they released another film by Hiromasa Yonebayashi,

17:26called When Marnie Was There,

17:28based on a novel of the same name by Joan G. Robinson,

17:32which Ghibli did make a small profit from.

17:35However, it would be the final film that Yonebayashi would make with the studio before he decided to quit.

17:41Also, they teamed up with Polygon Pictures to create their first CG animated series,

17:47Ronya the Robber's Daughter,

17:49with Goro Miyazaki as the director,

17:52and the first episode premiered on October 11th, 2014.

17:56However, going back a bit on August 3rd of that year,

18:00the whole world went in panic.

18:03A Ghibli fan page on Tumblr revealed that Toshio Suzuki had a meeting,

18:08and revealed that the studio is closing down.

18:12However, shortly afterwards,

18:14it turned out that Suzuki was mentioning that Ghibli needed some major changes,

18:19due to the fact that they weren't getting as much profit as they used to,

18:22and that they would go on a hiatus from making any more feature films.

18:27Huh, at least that gave out a bit of relief.

18:30But you know the biggest problem with that was?

18:32The fact that people actually believed something they read on Tumblr!

18:36Seriously, who uses Tumblr as their news source?

18:40That's like ordering at a fast food joint,

18:42and then you ask for a diet soda because you're trying to lose weight!

18:46But anyways, as it's pulling itself together during its hiatus,

18:50the studio is now taking time to work on smaller projects with Miyazaki,

18:55including some animated shorts for the Ghibli Museum.

18:58But no matter what the future holds for the studio,

19:01there is one thing that is certain.

19:04With all three of their founders retired from animated features,

19:08this officially marks the end of an era for both Studio Ghibli and animation.

19:31You weren't even listening!

19:58Nope.

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