The recent The Boy and the Heron documentary on Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, 2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli, garnered controversy this week after many people knowledgeable of Ghibli’s affairs considered it an exaggerated and even false account.Given the title, many fans who expected the NHK documentary to dive into The Boy and the Heron’s long production were disappointed with what appeared to be a dramatized account of Miyazaki himself. Masakatsu Ishizone, who was a director’s assistant in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke and My Neighbors the Yamadas, noted his disappointment, saying, “I’m watching the NHK Hayao Miyazaki special feature, but this is truly presenting a ‘false history,’ isn’t it? It connects his statements intermittently and crosses the wires between episodes and anecdotes. You have to watch it very carefully and objectively. It’s not about whether it’s accurate or inaccurate. I can’t comprehend the mentality behind making something like this.”While the documentary suggests that Miyazaki’s difficulty in the film was to do with Takahata, Full Frontal rejects this, given its extensive interviews with staff members Akihiko Yamashita (The Imaginary), Takeshi Honda and the iconic Toshiyuki Inoue. “Yet, we know that the part Hayao Miyazaki actually struggled with was the ‘C’ part,” they say, “when Mahito meets Kiriko. In the first drafts, Mahito was supposed to be helped by another character instead. But after a big break, he decided to have the younger version of Kiriko. 🧒”
The recent The Boy and the Heron documentary on Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, 2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli, garnered controversy this week after many people knowledgeable of Ghibli’s affairs considered it an exaggerated and even false account.
Given the title, many fans who expected the NHK documentary to dive into The Boy and the Heron‘s long production were disappointed with what appeared to be a dramatized account of Miyazaki himself. Masakatsu Ishizone, who was a director’s assistant in Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke and My Neighbors the Yamadas, noted his disappointment, saying, “I’m watching the NHK Hayao Miyazaki special feature, but this is truly presenting a ‘false history,’ isn’t it? It connects his statements intermittently and crosses the wires between episodes and anecdotes. You have to watch it very carefully and objectively. It’s not about whether it’s accurate or inaccurate. I can’t comprehend the mentality behind making something like this.”
While the documentary suggests that Miyazaki’s difficulty in the film was to do with Takahata, Full Frontal rejects this, given its extensive interviews with staff members Akihiko Yamashita (The Imaginary), Takeshi Honda and the iconic Toshiyuki Inoue. “Yet, we know that the part Hayao Miyazaki actually struggled with was the ‘C’ part,” they say, “when Mahito meets Kiriko. In the first drafts, Mahito was supposed to be helped by another character instead. But after a big break, he decided to have the younger version of Kiriko. 🧒”
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