Renowned Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki shocked the entire world last year when he announced the time had come for him to retire from making movies.
Filmmaker Mami Sunada, however, was present when the Oscar-winning director prepared to sign off from the film industry and she documented the life of Miyazaki and the prominent Japanese-based animation studio he had founded in 1985, Studio Ghibli.
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness has had a brand-new trailer released ahead of its launch in the U.S., with it focusing on the three influential figures who founded the studio — Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki — and the Japanese director’s development on his final feature film, The Wind Rises.
“As for me, I’m done making movies,” Miyazaki explains in the preview. “It’s futile now. I’m done.”
Isao Takahata, on the other hand, says in the trailer that Miyazaki’s films are “like magic.”
The documentary was originally released in Japan on November 16, 2013, with it receiving praise from a whole host of critics.
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness will have a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on November 28.
Via: YouTube
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