an animated movie Japanese Hayao Miyazaki’s latest work ‘The Boy and the Heron’The Oscar-winning director of the successful ‘Spirited Away’ will be in theaters for the 71st time on September 22. San Sebastian Film Festival.
The film presented out of competition in the Official Section, will be screened in the Kursaal auditorium after the opening gala This raid, which will end on Saturday, the 30th.
The San Sebastian competition reported in a note that Miyazaki will have its European premiere on September 7, after passing through the Toronto Festival. ‘The Boy and the Heron’ is the original story of the Japanese director.The soundtrack is by Joe Hisaishi, the usual composer of his films.
Miyazaki (Tokyo, 1941) founded Studio Ghibli with Isao Takahata in 1985 and since then, Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), “The Witch’s Apprentice Nicky” (1989), “Porco Rosso” (1992) and “Princess Mononoke” (1997).
He broke all the box office records with the 2001 film ‘Spirited Away’. It won numerous awards in Japan and including the Berlin Golden Bear and the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) also OscarMiyazaki received the Osella Award at the Venice Festival and the following year Miyazaki won the Golden Lion for his lifetime achievement at the Italian festival. Again in 2013, he won a Hollywood statuette nomination for “The Wind Is Rising”.
One year ago, Miyazaki was declared a Person of Cultural Value by the Government of Japan and, In 2014, she received an honorary Oscar for her lifetime achievement. Zinemaldia remembers being inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Awards Hall of Fame.
A film by the Japanese director, who also wrote, drew and designed the buildings, is scheduled for the fourth time at the San Sebastian Festival, although it is the first for which it is part of the Official Selection.
‘Spirited Away’ and ‘Ponyo on the Abyss’ were projected onto the Velodrome’s giant screen, while ‘The Wind Rises’ passed through Perlak.
The festival also adds that two more Studio Ghibli films dedicated to films featured in other competitions are included in this final episode: ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’ and ‘The Red Tortoise’, directed by Isao Takahata. , by Michael Dudok de Wit.