{"id":48931,"date":"2013-09-02T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=48931"},"modified":"2013-09-02T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:50:29","slug":"hayao-miyazaki-retires-from-directing-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/hayao-miyazaki-retires-from-directing-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayao Miyazaki retires from directing films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Miyazaki.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48935\" alt=\"Miyazaki\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Miyazaki.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Miyazaki.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Miyazaki-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli&#x2019;s co-founder and the director of such wonderful films as <em>Spirited Away,<\/em> <em>Princess Mononoke<\/em>, <em>Kiki&#x2019;s Delivery Service<\/em> and <em>My Neighbour Totoro<\/em>, will retire following the premiere of his latest film <em>The Wind Rises<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2013\/sep\/02\/studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki-retires\">The Guardian<\/a>, Miyazaki will make an official statement this week in Tokyo, as&#xA0; Studio Ghibli president Koju Hoshino stated &#x201C;He wants to say goodbye to all of you.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Miyazaki previously announced his retirement following <em>Princess Mononoke<\/em>, but returned to direct <em>Spirited Away<\/em>. He came out of retirement again to finish work on <em>Howl&#x2019;s Moving Castle<\/em>, and subsequently directed <em>Ponyo<\/em> in 2008. <em>The Wind Rises<\/em> screened at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend and is &#x201C;a fictionalised biography of Jiro Horikoshi, who designed Japanese fighter planes during the second world war.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>If this is the final retirement for Miyazaki, it&#x2019;s sad news for cinema but an excellent excuse to revisit the work of a true artist. We will definitely be digging out our Studio Ghibli films.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a title=\"Totoro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/My-Neighbour-Totoro-Blu-ray-DVD\/dp\/B008LU8O7M\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1378121110&sr=8-2&keywords=my+neighbour+totoro&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>My Neighbour Totoro<\/em> on Blu-ray + DVD for &#xA3;13.25 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-48931-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kKnKgK-uws4&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kKnKgK-uws4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kKnKgK-uws4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Ghibli co-founder and director Hayao Miyazaki to retire after The Wind Rises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":48935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2850,2849],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Miyazaki.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}