Special feature of 1905 film network Recently, the China premiere of animated films was held in Shanghai.
Miyazaki Hayao’s friend and working partner for many years — — Studio Ghibli, chairman and producer, came to China for publicity. This is the only country that promotes the film on a global scale. Not only that, Miyazaki Hayao and toshio suzuki specially recorded a greeting video for the audience in China.
This is the first time that 83-year-old Miyazaki Hayao has come forward to promote the release of this film, and it is also the second time that toshio suzuki has come to China after 40 years.
You know, when the animated film "What kind of life do you want to live" was released in Japan, it adopted a zero-publicity model — — Before the screening, except for the first poster, there were no publicity materials such as stills and trailers. Miyazaki Hayao was worried about it, but toshio suzuki said that now is the era of information explosion, and zero publicity may become an attractive way.
At present, "What Life Do You Want to Live" has exceeded 9.1 billion yen at the box office in Japan, and it has been released in North America, becoming the first Japanese original cartoon to top the box office list in North America. In terms of awards, it has swept away many awards, including Oscar Award for Best Animated Feature Film, Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, British Film Academy Award for Best Animated Film, and Japan Film Academy Award for Best Animated Film.
This animated film has also become the film with the shortest "time difference" for Miyazaki Hayao’s works to be released in China, which shows that all this is a two-way choice for Miyazaki Hayao, Studio Ghibli and China.
Why did Miyazaki Hayao and Studio Ghibli leave these "unique" to the audience in China?
Preference for China’s traditional aesthetics
It will be mentioned on many websites that Miyazaki Hayao embarked on the road of animation because of a China animation. In fact, it is not, but it is closely related to China.
As a teenager, Miyazaki Hayao watched an animated film in the cinema, which was the first full-length color animated film in Japan, based on Chinese folklore. Later, in an interview, Miyazaki Hayao mentioned that he was only interested in painting at that time, because this animation was determined to embark on the road of animation.
Miyazaki Hayao is almost obsessed with this animation, and some Japanese media reported that he even "fell in love" with the White Snake. But what is certain is that Miyazaki Hayao likes the voice of Xu Xian very much. After many years, he invited him to voice his works.
In fact, before the production of Legend of the White Snake, Japan had no experience in making long-form animation, so the creation of this project inspired its staff to study the production system of long-form animation from scratch.
It finally took two years, and the film was released in Japan on October 22nd, 1958. This film is of special significance to Japanese animation. Even the centenary birthday of Japanese animation in 2017, October 22nd was recognized as "the day of animation".
In addition to being firm in animation, Miyazaki Hayao is determined to enter Dongying Company, the production company of the animated film Legend of the White Snake.
Because of the imperfection of Japanese animation industry system at that time, many Japanese animators were greatly influenced by China’s traditional animation. Miyazaki Hayao, who is partial to China culture, minored in Chinese during his college years.
Miyazaki Hayao, who just stepped into the society, was lucky. After graduation, she entered the coveted Dongying Company and met another good friend in her career — — It also belongs to the Japanese animation master. Both of them like China traditional animation very much, especially these early animation works created by Shanghai Animation Film Studio.
At that time, Dongying Company did not focus on animated films, but made well-known animation IP such as Astro Boy into animated series by the appeal of "God of Animation".
On the contrary, this mode has given Gao Tianxun and Miyazaki Hayao a lot of creative space. In The Adventure of Sun Prince Holes directed by Gao Tianxun, Miyazaki Hayao, who has just entered the East for two years, pioneered the post of "scene design", and even played a role in fighting wolves in Holes, playing a super animation talent.
In 1972, China and Japan established diplomatic relations, and the first pandas "Kangkang" and "Lan Lan" in Japan arrived in Tokyo. In order to welcome these two cute little people, Dongying Company launched an animated work "Panda Family". This animation was written by Gao Tianxun, while Miyazaki Hayao did four jobs: original case, script, scene design and original painting.
Although there is no author expression of Miyazaki Hayao’s later period in this animation, we can clearly see the shadow of later period from the design of characters and roles. Therefore, many people think that "my neighbor totoro" has the gene of China panda.
Reflection on war
Anti-war has always been an eternal theme in Miyazaki Hayao’s films.In reality, he condemned Japan’s war of aggression against China more than once and publicly stated that Japan should apologize to China. "I think (Japan) must.cleanChudiSay that the war of aggression is over.All wrong, (recognition) has brought great suffering to the people of China. "
Miyazaki Hayao, who was born in World War II, has experienced the pain brought by the war since he was a child. His family runs a factory that produces aircraft components. It seems that life is guaranteed, but the family is still displaced because of the war.
Miyazaki Hayao once published an article in the magazine Hot Wind in Studio Ghibli, telling the story of film creation, including the content of World War II. He wrote, "I had a strong feeling in my childhood that we fought a very stupid war."
The movie "The Wind is Blowing" is a movie that took place during World War II, telling the life of Jiro Horue. This character is a teenager who loves airplanes, but under the background of war, he can only design fighters. Therefore, there is a line in the movie, "The plane is not a tool for businessmen to make money, nor is it a weapon for war. The plane is just a work for inventors to realize their ideals."
In this contradictory era, the war is ruthless, especially at the end of the film, Miyazaki Hayao once again said through the role, "The plane is a cursed dream, waiting to be swallowed up by the sky."
In addition to this film, in Miyazaki Hayao’s early films, he also expressed his resistance to the war more or less.
A restored animated film just released in China last year — — This work, which is considered by the outside world to be the most like his autobiography, talks about the resistance to fascism, and even says by the man, "If I want to become a fascist, I would rather be a pig."
In the movie Princess Ghost, an abandoned iron mine was used as a military facility in the war, and nature was polluted and destroyed. Also in the context of World War II, it conveys that only through peaceful means can people understand each other and live together.
With the growth of age, Miyazaki Hayao has had a deeper insight into this theme. In the new film "What Life Do You Want to Live", he will continue to think about war and peace and inject more interpretations into life.
Or it is Miyazaki Hayao’s sincerity, as well as his gentle brushwork and attitude expression, that can make each of his works have such a long vitality and make everyone who loves him and his audience get feedback.
How can such a lovely and sincere grandfather not be favored by the audience in China?
