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Ponyo at #3, New/Old Release for Anne of Green Gables

  • In it's first week on the video market Ponyo managed to snag the #3 spot on the sales chart for both overall sales at BD sales. 34% of sales were from the BD version and on the rental front the film landed at the 19th spot.
  • The Ghibli Museum Diary reports that "Akage no Anne -Road to Green Gables-" will be released as part of the museum's cinema library series. Isao Takahata recut scenes from the first six episodes of the TV series as a theatrical version 100 minutes long but it was not officially released. The official website goes live in late April.

Thanks to Daniel Zelter and T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 13:36, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Ponyo BD/DVD Released in North America

A wide array of video flavors for Ponyo are unleashed today. To mark the occasion here' some news bits:

Thanks to João Solimeo, Kevin Thomas, and Daniel Zelter

--LLin 14:50, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Miyazaki Appears on Arrietty Blog, Progress Status

The February 18 entry contains a video clip of Miyazaki. According to the blog while preparations for the shooting were underway Miyazaki suddenly showed up (this room is Toshio Suzuki's room) and began to talk at the camera. A rough translation:

What Nishioka (Arrietty blogger) had talked are all lies. Shooting this now? The production team becomes impoverished. Chief animator Kagawa-san and Yamashita-san become impoverished most. Art director Takeshige and director assistance Noboru Yoshida becomes impoverished by another dimension more. The skin of the face of Yoshida-san peels off once in 3rd. He tries various medicine, but it is not yet improved. I think that the unprecedented spurt not to understand what will happen in the future approaches gradually with the time limit. It will be in time or not in time, I do not really understand it. That's all. You are not able to broadcast this, are you? (staff: I think good.)

When Miyazaki leaves the chair at the 1:15 mark the Oscar from Spirited Away can been seen in the background case.

The production status was posted last Sunday:

  • Layout: 994 cuts are complete
  • Key animation: 654 cuts - 65%
  • Chief animator check: 529 cuts - 53%
  • Animation: 493 cuts - 49%
  • Painting: 356 cuts - 35%
  • Background painting: 443 cuts - 44%
  • Completed cuts: 332 cuts - 33%

Arrietty has 995 cuts.

Nishioka: Well, though these number shows the critical status, it's a speed-up from the last time. The postponement of the release won't be forgiven because the first day was announced. I think staff members will do their best from now on and continue working. Though it is the critical status, but please expect staff's perseverance. I'll announce the numbers again next month.

Nishioka is accepting questions about Arrietty, people who want to send best wishes to the staff are also encouraged to write-in.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 02:44, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Ponyo BD Wins Award, Older Films to be Released on BD

Ponyo won the 2nd annual Grand Prix of The Digital Entertainment Group Japan/Blue-ray Disc Award. Judged by AV and film critics, magazine editors, and representatives from 15 manufacturers, the release beat out 1,100 other works released in 2009 for the award. At the ceremony Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment announced that it will begin BD releases of Studio Ghibli's back catalog this year. Production will be headed by Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi of Panasonic's Hollywood laboratory.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 14:47, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Ghibli's Next Film and Arrietty's Advertising Plan

Studio Ghibli has created a Toho Advertising Caravan Report website. The report mentions that "Ghibli to create a film in 2010 and 2011 by a young director".

Four parts of the Arrietty advertising plan were announced:

  1. Advance ticket sales begin April 17 with bonus Arrietty mini books - volume one (Character collection) and volume two (Under floor background painting collection). Volume one can be seen on Ghibli's official YouTube channel.
  2. A Cecile Corbel concert is planned and she will participate in an advertising campaign starting July 1. She will also participate in one of Japan's numerous music festivals.
  3. A big pillar of the publicity blitz is NTV's full-scale coverage and two programs from NHK. One is a documentary program like Ponyo's which is already broadcasting. The other is Cecile Corbel's concert.
  4. Director Hiromasa Yonebayashi is not available to the media until the film's completion.

Toshio Suzuki said, "All the usual young directors have developed ulcers within two weeks. However, this time the director takes no notice even if Miyazaki says anything. A calm director." Suzuki also said that he pushed for Elaine Lobl Konigsburg's "(George)" (Japanese title is "I and George") before Miyazaki suggested Arrietty.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 02:17, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Miyazaki Films showing in February at National Library of Australia

The Japanese Embassy is presenting 3 Miyazaki films (for free!) at the end of February at the National Library in Canberra.

http://www.au.emb-japan.go.jp/pdf/2010GhibliAnimationPDF.pdf

Thanks to ConMan for the news.

-- Mrgazpacho 13:34, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Ponyo Opens in the UK

Reviews from different papers:

To coincide with the theatrical release Film4 is holding a "Studio Ghibli Season" with a film playing everyday at 11am through February 16.

Thanks to David Pearce for the news.

--LLin 18:24, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Totoro Cameo in Toy Story 3 Trailer

Anime News Network reports that Totoro makes an appearance in the recently released third teaser trailer for Toy Story 3. Miyazaki and Toy Story director John Lassiter have a long history of mutual admiration.

Thanks to William Raymer and Daniel Zelter for the news.

--LLin 14:47, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Arrietty Image CD Tracklist

Arrietty's image song collection "Kari-gurashi" will be released on April 7.

Tracklist:

  • 01 A Different World
  • 02 Arrietty's Song (English version)
  • 03 Sho's Song
  • 04 Sho's Lament
  • 05 The Neglected Garden
  • 06 Forbidden Love
  • 07 My First Borrowing
  • 08 Our House Below
  • 09 Haru's Chase
  • 10 Rain
  • 11 Spiller
  • 12 The Doll House
  • 13 Departure at Dawn
  • 14 Arrietty's Song (Japanese version)

Sho is a 12 year-old boy who is at the house for recuperation. At a press conference for Arrietty Toshio Suzuki mentioned that Miyazaki likes "Forbidden Love".

Image CDs are inspiried from early drawings and descriptions, every Miyazaki film scored by Joe Hisaishi has had an image CD.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 19:24, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Arrietty Trailer on YouTube

An unofficial version is available on YouTube. While no dialogue is present in the 50 second teaser a Cecile Corbel song plays in the background.

Thanks to Mohd Jafar for the news.

--LLin 04:11, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Arrietty Release Date Revealed

July 17 is the release date for Arrietty. It was announced during Ponyo broadcast TV debut along with a teaser trailer and an interview with theme song/soundtrack writer Cecile Corbel.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 15:52, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Ponyo Misses Best Animated Feature Oscar Nomination

Studio Ghibli will remain a one-Oscar house as Ponyo did not move to the nomination phase. Five films, "Coraline", "Fantastic Mr. Fox", "The Princess and the Frog", "The Secret of Kells" and "Up", made the cut (GhibliWorld earlier interviewed "Kells" director Tomm Moore).

--LLin 17:12, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Ponyo Airing on NTV

Ponyo makes its TV debut February 5 at 9:00pm on NTV's Friday Roadshow program. Prior to the film at 7:56pm "How Ponyo was born - Live broadcast from Ghibli Museum" will air. Additionally NTV will broadcast footage from "Studio Ghibli's latest film". While the film isn't specified an Arrietty trailer is expected.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 19:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Miyazaki's New Short Film

Toshio Suzuki revealed news of Miyazaki's latest work on Ghibli Asemamire: a 10 minutes short without dialogue for the Studio Ghibli Museum. Google Japan President Kouichiro Tsujino was Suzuki's guest the past two weeks and recommended that the film be available on YouTube. According to Suzuki, Miyazaki said, "Let's do it!" but sometimes hesitates. Due to a shortage of animators caused by work on Arrietty, Miyazaki is personally working on the key animation for the short. It was originally 1 minute in length but ended up over 10 minutes long.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 17:48, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Hideaki Anno Appears on Ghibli Asemamire

The latest episode of Toshio Suzuki's radio show features an appearance from the director of Evangelion, who also worked on the Nausicaa movie.

http://podcasts.tfm.co.jp/podcasts/tokyo/rg/suzuki_vol119.mp3
http://podcasts.tfm.co.jp/podcasts/tokyo/rg/suzuki_vol120.mp3

Here are some excerpts of the interview:

According to Suzuki, because Anno hoped to make Nausicaa 2, Suzuki often suggested to Miyazaki that they make Nausicaa as a three part film, with Anno directing part 2 and Miyazaki directing part 3. But Miyazaki rejected this idea. Anno says he wants to make a film of Vol. 7 of the Nausicaa manga [note: this is the final volume of the manga, completed several years after the Nausicaa movie itself which covers approximately only volumes 1 and 2].

According to Anno, there was a cool fight scene of an Ohmu and the God Warrior in a cut scene of the story boards. Anno says, "I wanted to watch it. But if those story boards were used, I could not draw it."

Anno still has regrets about the scene of the revival of the God Warrior. He wanted to use seven pieces of animation cels between key flame animations. But Miyazaki did not allow it because there was no time. So, five pieces animation cel were used. And Miyazaki did not allow the use of three colors for a shade. He did not allow two colors either at first, but accepted it. Anno says "There was a memo "If you use three colors, I will kill you" from Miya-san."

Suzuki says, "Your salary (of God Warrior scene) was low, wasn't it?" Anno answers "No, No. I got much. I was surprised because salary then was low. The salary of TV series Macross, I did it as a part-time job when I was a student; it was 1,800 yen per one cut."

Anno says, "I kept to my house after the TV series of Eva. I lost the point of living. That time, Miya-san called me and say "Anyway, take a rest."

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the translation.

-- Mrgazpacho 10:19, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Arrietty Status Update

The Arrietty blog was updated with the following stats:

  • Key animation: 547 cuts (32,000 pieces) completed - 55%
  • Animation: 375 cuts (24,000pieces) - 37%
  • Painting: 250 cuts - 25%
  • Background painting: 350 cuts - 35%
  • Completed cuts: 212 cuts - 21% (~19 minutes)

Total running time will be a ~100 minutes.

Production began last May and the blogger comments, "To speak honestly, I think these number show a slight delay of production." Staff members were also announced:

  • Chief animator: Akihiko Yamashita, Ai Kagawa
  • Animation check: Kaori Fujii
  • Art director: Yoji Takeshige, Noboru Yoshida
  • Cinematography: Atsushi Okui
  • Color designer: Naomi Mori (She debuts with this film)
  • Sound effect and Music: Kouji Kasamatsu

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo will hold an exhibition titled "Karigurashi no Arrietty and Youhei Taneda" based on Miyazaki's 10 image boards for the film sometime this summer.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 14:49, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

US DVD Re-release Covers

Covers for the re-release of Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, and My Neighbor Totoro are spreading across the internet. The Disney Rewards site has thumbnails and Amazon.com displays larger images.

The new covers are much less busy and closer in spirit to the original Japanese covers. It'll be true progress if The Cat Returns is re-released without a cat on the cover.

Thanks to Kevin Thomas for the news.

--LLin 17:33, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Arrietty Theme Song Preview

Toshio Suzuki's radio program podcast features the Arrietty theme song, it begins at the 19:10 mark.

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 17:59, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

"Spirited Away" on Australian TV Christmas Day

SBS is broadcasting Spirited Away (English dub) on Christmas day at 9:45pm.

Thanks to Widya Santoso for the news.

--LLin 02:46, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Miyazaki Meets Kurosawa

The 1993 talk/interview between Hayao Miyazaki and Akira Kurosawa is available in 10 sections on YouTube. Originally broadcast on NTV an edited version appeared on a Sherlock Hound DVD and viewers lacking Japanese language skills can follow along with an English transcript. The program begins at the 2:05 mark with the actual talk starting at 6:58.

When Kurosawa's daughter Kazuko Kurosawa appeared on Toshio Suzuki's radio program, she said that My Neighbor Totoro was Akira Kurosawa's favorite Miyazaki film and that he cried during Kiki's Delivery Service. Suzuki said, "I remember that Miya-san talked while being tense like a student" and "Kurosawa-san was a very excellent person. How to talk. Content of talk. Behavior. I think please Miya-san become excellent person." (laughs)

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 19:33, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Arrietty Music, Other Details

  • According to Toshio Suzuki, Miyazaki wrote the project paper and the script for Arrietty then asked Suzuki "Who directs it?" Suzuki answered, "Maro" (Hiromasa Yonebayashi's nickname) immediately. Miyazaki was surprised and asked "Why?" It was a snap decision at the time as Suzuki recalls, "I had not spoken with Maro about being the director. I said his name as the question was asked Miya-san." They called Yonebayashi to the Miyazaki's sub-studio (Nibariki) and Miyazaki said, "You do the direction!" Yonebayashi was stunned, but he accepted after a few minutes. Yonebayashi decided to do the storyboards work without Miyazaki's assistance and when informed Miyazaki replied, "You are right, You are a man!" However, Miyazaki is very much interested in the film, and Suzuki worries about when Miyazaki will break into the project.
  • The original setting of the book is the UK in the 1950s, for the film it's been changed to the present-day Koganei neighborhood (where Studio Ghibli is based).

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 04:00, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

First details "Karigurashi no Arrietty" press conference

The first details of yesterday's press conference have been posted over here. More to follow later this day.

Toshio Suzuki announced that Miyazaki has already completed the script. Miyazaki always begins production before the script is completed because Miyazaki believes, "There's no thrill in making a film while knowing the ending of the story. However, with a young director the script must be prepared before production begins."

Thanks to Kajino p and T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 14:56, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Ghibli's Next Film "Karigurashi no Arrietty" Announced

[[Image:Arrietty_poster_JapanA.jpg(->)]]

Today Studio Ghibli made the official announcement of their new full length feature film titled Karigurashi no Arrietty. The film will be an adaptation of Mary Norton's The Borrowers novel and, as hinted earlier on GhibliWorld, will be directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. More details at GhibliWorld.com

  • Title: Karigurashi no Arrieety
  • Original: "The Borrowers" by Mary Norton
  • Project: Hayao Miyazaki
  • Theme Song: Cecile Corbel, "Arrieety's Song" - To be released on December 19
  • Production Committee: Studio Ghibli, Nippon Television (NTV), Dentsu, Hakuhodo, Disney, Mitsubishi Corporation,Toho, Wild Bunch
  • Distributor: Toho
  • Estimated runtime: 80 minutes

Hiromasa Yonebayashi is 36 years old and an animator at Studio Ghibli. He was chief animator of Miyazaki's short film "Imaginary Flying Machines" and an animation director on Mei and the Kittenbus in 2002. Miyazaki does not usually have an animation director in his feature films. Yonebayashi appeared in NHK's documentary program about Spirited Away.

Toshio Suzuki's radio program Ghibli Asemamire will release the press conference in podcast format tomorrow.

Thanks to Kajino p and T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 14:59, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Ghibli's Next Film To Be Announced December 16

On his radio show Toshio Suzuki mentioned that Ghibli's next film will be announced December 16 and that Miyazaki is creating a TV commercial film now. Studio Ghibli's distributer Toho will also announce it's 2010 film lineup the 16th.

Suzuki's most recent radio interviewee was Eiichiro Oda, author of "One Piece". He said, "I've watched How Princess Mononoke Was Born the most out of the Ghibli films, even though it's not a film. I always get a very much renewed spirit from it, such great people doing their best so often. It was a shock for me. The most interesting scene is the fax exchanges between Suzuki-san and Itoi-san. Because I'm the Executive Producer in the latest film, I've rejected faxes in the style of that scene. (laughs)"

Thanks to T. Ishikawa for the news.

--LLin 17:29, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ponyo DVD/BD Specs, DVD Re-releases

  • The site Formerly Known as AnimeOnDVD links to a press release from DVD Times that lists a March 2 release date for Ponyo and some of the bonus features. Amazon.com is taking pre-orders for the DVD and BD.

Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news.

--LLin 01:57, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Spirited Away (Subbed) Midnight Screening

The Fairfax Cinema in Los Angeles is screening the Japanese dub/English sub version of Spirited Away midnight this Friday, December 4.

Thanks to Daniel Zelter for the news.

--LLin 04:11, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Ponyo and the Annies

Ponyo was not nominated for the Best Animated Feature Annie Award but Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi are nominated in the "Directing in a Feature Production" and "Music in a Feature Production" categories. The other four directors competing are:

  • Wes Anderson, "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
  • Pete Docter, "Up"
  • Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
  • Henry Selick, "Coraline"

Hisaishi goes against three other composers:

  • Bruno Coulais, "Coraline"
  • Michael Giacchino, "Up"
  • John Powell, "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs"

Complete nomination list

Thanks to William Raymer and Daniel Zelter for the news.

--LLin 11:22, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

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