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Hayao Miyazaki may be 85 years old, but his son has revealed that the legendary Studio Ghibli filmmaker has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.
Speaking during a media preview for Ghibli Park’s latest exhibition, Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro Miyazaki revealed that his Oscar-winning father is still producing new illustrations despite his age.
According to Oricon, Goro joked that part of him wishes his father would finally slow down before admitting he’d rather see him continue creating for the rest of his life.
Miyazaki’s son hopes father keeps drawing
“I get to the point where I think, ‘Come on, enough already,'” Goro said with a laugh. “But at this point, I hope he keeps drawing until the day he dies.”
He then revealed that his father is still producing new artwork today, pointing towards the drawings he created for Ghibli Park’s new Panorama Box Exhibition.
“He’s still drawing new pictures. They’ve started spilling out of the boxes, so they’re becoming like panorama boxes without frames,” he said during a press conference.
Miyazaki’s new Panorama Box Exhibition opened on July 8 at Studio Ghibli’s Park, a theme park in Japan that houses attractions based on My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and other beloved films.
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The display features 31 handcrafted panorama boxes that Hayao Miyazaki created over three years and includes three-dimensional art inspired by the paper crafts Miyazaki loved as a child.
Each box layers multiple illustrations together to recreate moments from films like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Boy and the Heron, and works that have never appeared in his films.
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“Studio Ghibli has been around for a long time, so many of the older films aren’t as familiar to children today,” Goro continued. “If this exhibition encourages people to discover them and think, ‘I’d like to watch that movie,’ then that would make us very happy.”
This isn’t the only exciting news to come out of Studio Ghibli this year, as back in June it was revealed that fan-favorite film Kiki’s Delivery Service is being turned into a 10-part live-action TV series.
