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2 new Ghibli films out in summer 2013

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By Steven Simonitch

Studio Ghibli has officially announced it will release two new films on the same day in summer 2013.

The first film is "Kaze Tachinu" (“The Wind Rises”) and tells the story of of Jiro Horikoshi, the chief engineer of the Zero fighter plane used by Japan in World War II. It is being directed by acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki, his first theatrical release since "Ponyo" in 2008.

The first official poster for "Kaze Tachinu" (at left) carries the tagline: “We must endeavor to live”. It is also written that the film is in honor of Jiro Horikoshi and Tatsuo Hori, an early 20th century Japanese writer and poet who authored a novel that shares the same name as the film.

The second film is "Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari" (“The Tale of Princess Kaguya”), based on the popular Japanese folk story "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter." It is being directed by Isao Takahata, who is best known for writing and directing "Grave of the Fireflies."

The film will be in the style of classical Japanese picture scrolls and is about Kaguya-hime, a thumb-sized baby girl found sleeping in a mysterious, glowing stalk of bamboo. While it sounds all very lighthearted and magical, the poster tagline, “The Princess’ Crime and Punishment”, suggests a darker tone.

Both films will be released nationwide on the same day in summer 2013.

Source: IT News, Kaze Tachinu, Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari

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Looking forward to this. I love Studio Ghibli. I prefer Ghibli's than Disney's works. Their films are so beautiful and artistic.

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The first film sounds interesting, he has always loved flight and airplanes and has included quite a bit about them in some of his past films.

It is interesting to hear Ghibili compared to Disney, as a serous student and researcher of Anime, i find Miyazaki San's work to be quite derivative of Disney and while pleasant and at times beautiful, the Studio G creations all show a very strong western influence and are weaker for it. There is also a bizarre and at times very macabre tone to the films, Porco Rosso which is a delightful story with some very nice elements has the main character cast as an ugly pig. It is a sad downgrade for what could have been a wonderful classic. Another film shows a lovely young girl turned into a hag for most of the story, trapped in an aged body she did not deserve. War also intrudes and casts a shadow. A few have mostly happy tone to them, i am not saying all films should be happy but that when i at first started studying anime i was quite taken by the Studio G creations but over the years, i have come to see them as a pale shadow of the real anime masterpieces which continue to be created each year in Japan, each year better and better with several all time classics this year, including Hayouka and Ano Natsu de Matteru.

If you want to see what anime is really capable of, watch one of the best of the best, 精霊の守り人, Seirei no Moribito, Moribito Guardian of the Spirit, which is a superb creation ...the story was written by Nahoko Uehashi, a manga then took up the tale written by Nahoko Uehashi and illustrated by Kamui Fujiwara and published by Square Enix and then a wonderful anime film version in 26 episodes directed by Kenji Kamiyama and produced by Production I.G. shows what can be achieved in true Japanese style and wonderfully and superbly better than any thing Disney has ever done and also quite a bit better really than Studio G, but i am glad there will be two new titles coming out and one by the master.

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Porco Rosso which is a delightful story with some very nice elements has the main character cast as an ugly pig. It is a sad downgrade for what could have been a wonderful classic.

That's what makes the stories so good. I dislike Disney for its super fresh super clean stories. The princess is always beautiful, the prince always handsome and the ending always a happy one. Where is the fun in that. Ghibili always seem to break away from the norm in one way or another and for that I love them.

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I'm very excited about this. Miyazaki and his associates are among the best in their craft EVER. Grave of the Fireflies is the most heartbreaking film I've ever seen. Generally one sheds some tears when moved by a film and then that's that, however for me, that movie made me grieve for days.

I'm a full grown man with real day to day problems but I simply could not let that go, I've been trying to steel myself to watch it again because I have an HD copy of it now but it's very hard for me. Anyway, anything that can have that much of an affect on someone is quite something.

Ghibli is top notch.

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I agree about the fun twist that Ghibili puts on things it is very special and one of the fine qualities of the stories. But at times it gets pretty extreme, and even limits the result i feel but that is my own thought.

I do agree that they are fine artists with the animation and style, Grave of the Fireflies is indeed so powerfully tragic, i frankly cannot watch it again myself, for that reason, i find that anime opens up my heart and i feel very strongly about many of the stories, sometimes i have to wait weeks between watching certain episodes because of the trauma or tragedy. Japanese anime does not hold back, and it speaks about extremes that no other modern media deals with artistically or in story form. That is one of the reasons i have such admiration for Japanese culture ..they do not fear the events of life that may be very hard to bear.... and somehow never surrender to them, tho we all suffer. I will say that Ghibili does deal with this too, and does it very well.

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I love Studio Ghibli films, each one is like a classic masterpiece, the art and animation, directing and story, so rich and powerful, deep and meaningful. Beautiful, awe inspiring, heartwarming.

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The poster itself is already Miyazaki at his finest. The setting, the view, the colors, the girl, the message. Wish we had many more master artisans at his level so we can appreciate the highest art of animation much more often than every 5 or so years.

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The first film is “Kaze Tachinu” (“The Wind Rises”) and tells the story of of Jiro Horikoshi, the chief engineer of the Zero fighter plane used by Japan in World War II.

I hope it doesn't turn into yet another self-pitying pity-party...

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