RAHEEM MEHSAR
The 83-year-old's ability to put down his pencil has come under scrutiny following his Oscar triumph for The Boy and the Heron.
It would have been the ideal farewell: acknowledging Japan's legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki's artistic talent at the Academy Awards.
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When The Boy and the Heron won the best animated feature award in Los Angeles last weekend, Japan had an opportunity to consider the immense impact of Hayao Miyazaki and whether the 83-year-old director is genuinely done with movies.
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Talk about Miyazaki's future emerged just as Studio Ghibli, the place where he has been practicing his alchemy since the mid-1980s, was about to get its second Oscar.
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Miyazaki became the oldest filmmaker to ever receive an Oscar nomination for best animated picture with the success of The Boy and the Heron,
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Toshio Suzuki, the producer of Studio Ghibli and an old friend of Miyazaki's, was not present for the ceremony. During a Tokyo press appearance, Suzuki said he was deliriously thrilled.
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According to Kelts, Miyazaki was motivated by a desire to outperform his rivals, particularly in light of the popularity of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Makoto Shinkai's Your Name. "He is putting on an impressive return," he continued.
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Citing the challenge of meeting his own extraordinarily high standards, Miyazaki said in 2013 that he would no longer be producing feature-length movies.
Will Japan's master of animation,,
ever retire?