35 year of Studio Ghibli 1985-2020 Hayao Miyazaki Thank you for the memories shirt, lady tee, longsleeve tee

35 years ago today, NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND opened in Japan and made history. Off its spectacular success, Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki founded Studio Ghibli to continue creating animated classics, inspiring the world for generations to come. Don’t miss NAUSICAÄ on the big screen as part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2019! Tickets on sale now for when it hits theaters on May 20 & 21 for its 35th anniversary screening. 35 year of Studio Ghibli 1985-2020 Hayao Miyazaki Thank you for the memories shirt now available.

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For all readers: it was Tōru Hara (previously the founder of Topcraft, which produced the animation of “Nausicaä”) and Yasuyoshi Tokuma (of Tokuma Shoten, which I think Ghibli was originally created as a division of) who started Studio Ghibli with Takahata and Miyazaki. Toshio Suzuki, to keep it short, had known Miyazaki since the early ’80s and was instrumental in getting “Nausicaä” the comic and later the film made though his work on the magazine “Animage” in which the comic was serialised. But he only worked for Ghibli in an official capacity beginning with “Kiki’s Delivery Service” in 1989, four features in, and went on to take over from Hara, who left in 1991.

For hard proof, look at the credits of those earlier films (or for quickness the billing blocks on the back of GKIDS’ packaging will do) and see if they list Toshio Suzuki in the English credits or 鈴木敏夫 in the original as a producer. I guess this oft-made misunderstanding has an origin in watching video documentaries presented by Suzuki, which because he’s the one doing the talking can give the impression that he was there from the beginning. He knows about that time because he was *around* when it was happening and a close follower of it, but he wasn’t actually *there* during those first years – the division is a bit clearer in any written account.

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