A new Ghibli film ?

[Fabrice]

I heard about Porco Rosso 2

Does someone knows something about it ?

[Patrice]

Miyazaki does not want at all making a film with a "2". So I think it is a fake. In addition nothing about it is discussed in the Ghibli community around the world. Nevertheless Ghibli's producer spoke about one or two projects but no more informations about them are available over the web.

Since Ponyo, only one video clip was released by Ghibli. This has been made by Yoshiyuki Momose for the song Piece of Yui Aragaki. If you have the luck to see it, don't hesitate

[Fabrice]

Miyazaki does not want at all making a film with a "2". So I think it is a fake. In addition nothing about it is discussed in the Ghibli community around the world. Nevertheless Ghibli's producer spoke about one or two projects but no more informations about them are available over the web.

ok, it confirms my first thought. Probably a fake then.

[ten_zero]

The new work of Miyazaki will become an irrelevant story to "Porco ( Kurenai no Buta)".
The rumor that I heard is "Takahata handles new theater animation after an interval of ten years".
However, this is not a source that Ghibli formally announced.

"My Neighbors the Yamadas (Tonari no Yamada-kun)" that Takahata announced in 1999 is my favorite Ghibli movie. It is like a home "Emakimono　( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakimono )", not a fiction familiy drama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbors_the_Yamadas
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mes_voisins_les_Yamada

P.S. "My Neighbors the Yamadas" DVD Japanese Edition is subtitled Japanese, English and French !

[Peter Wassink]

The new work of Miyazaki will become an irrelevant story to "Porco ( Kurenai no Buta)".
The rumor that I heard is "Takahata handles new theater animation after an interval of ten years".
However, this is not a source that Ghibli formally announced.

"My Neighbors the Yamadas (Tonari no Yamada-kun)" that Takahata announced in 1999 is my favorite Ghibli movie. It is like a home "Emakimono　( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emakimono )", not a fiction familiy drama.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbors_the_Yamadas
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mes_voisins_les_Yamada

P.S. "My Neighbors the Yamadas" DVD Japanese Edition is subtitled Japanese, English and French !

i Love that film and have the japanese DVD, its hard to go through the menus though!

[Paul Fierlinger]

I can't stand watching it -- it's what my computer does to my own work when it's running out of CPU power. Why is it O.K. to leave out in betweens? Would you buy shoes with missing shoelaces, goggles without the glass, whiskey without the whiskers?

[malcooning]

I can't stand watching it -- it's what my computer does to my own work when it's running out of CPU power. Why is it O.K. to leave out in betweens? Would you buy shoes with missing shoelaces, goggles without the glass, whiskey without the whiskers?

are you judging by the video above?
it's a screen capture of media player, and hence it dropped frames. Yamada is a well animated, well written film. If anything was made or left out in a Takahata film, you can be sure it's on purpose.

[Paul Fierlinger]

it's a screen capture of media player, and hence it dropped frames.

Thanks Asaf, I didn't know that. So many Japanese films are animated in fives and sevens that I just took this one as one of those.

[ZigOtto]

Yamada is a well animated

definitively, in this refined 2D style, one of the best animation it can be done by hands,
indeed, a magical ratio of sensibility/virtuosity.

[Paul Fierlinger]

Well, it goes right by me. I think I'd rather watch the Simpsons.

[ten_zero]

(I am sorry, my English language skill is not well...)

Any Japan travel guides or OTAKU magazines take up "HANAFUDA (by Nintendo)", "Gekkou Kamen", "Taketori-no-Okina" and "Nenga-jou no siwake" ?

"Yamadas" is just a handwriting animation movie. However, it plays a navigator of ordinary Japanese culture.

Have you seen this Ukiyoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-six ... Mount_Fuji, and this ?

[Elodie]

it's a screen capture of media player, and hence it dropped frames.

Thanks Asaf, I didn't know that. So many Japanese films are animated in fives and sevens that I just took this one as one of those.

Only series, not long featured films =)

You've never seen a Miyazaki, Paul ?

(I am sorry, my English language skill is not well...)

Don't be sorry, we all come from different countries and just some people here are english or american natives =)

[Peter Wassink]

Well, it goes right by me. I think I'd rather watch the Simpsons.

funny you should mention the Simpsons, because by numerous critics this film has been called a kind of Japanese Simpsons as it also deals with the daily life of a typical family and is also an animated comedy in a caricature drawing style (though the humor is a bit more gentle in the Yamadas)
I love the look of the film, which is very oriental, the lines often don't reach the edges of the screen and the backgrounds dissolve to white.
The animation amplifies this, all unnecessary stuff is left out. For instance a scene where the family sits in the car, stuck in traffic, the father pulls his head back in after checking how long the jam is and then closes the window by cranking the lever... but this is not drawn you only see him move his arm and hand but the lever and the window are all whited out, and somehow that little scene works beautifully.

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[Fabrice]

You've never seen a Miyazaki, Paul ?

Good question indeed !

Have you already seen Miyazaki's films Paul ? They are probably the most beautiful ever created. (Totoro, Porco Rosso, etc ...)

A lot of japanese films/series have also an excellent quality (five centimeters per seconds, serei no moribito, mushishi, tsubasa no honeamise, etc ...), but only a few people heard about them outside Japan !

[Paul Fierlinger]

The truth is, I don't know. I've seen a few Japanese films at festivals and they all look alike to me and I am so uninterested in that dewy, flying saucer eyed, overly sentimental and simplistically moralizing style that I never cared to investigate who's behind which one. It's a different culture. So different and complex that I don't have enough curiosity to learn more about them.

My father lived and worked there for 25 years; I was born there but was too little to remember anything. My father, who I had good reasons to detest all my life, would talk endlessly about his Japanese memories but would say nothing about himself -- he claimed to have learned that over there and admired such qualities. I detached early on and it still remains... so there you have, it all hanging out, do what you want with me.