Well, never say never … but at present it seems unlikely, for three reasons. Firstly, Hayao Miyazaki has spent more than a decade working on two films. The Wind Rises and The Boy and the Heron, that are deeply personal. They are explorations of his own ideas, inspirations and beliefs, and of events and relationships that […]
That’s an excellent question, not just because it impacts a key relationship in the film of Howl’s Moving Castle but because it also gives us an example of the contrast between relationships with an equal power balance and relationships where all power is given to one side. I’m not going to talk about this in terms […]
The Ghibli fans who come to my Seed Talks ask some really interesting questions. So I’ve started recalling as many of them as I can at the end of each session, and I plan to revisit my answers here in a series of news posts, with a bit more detail than I can give in […]
I get some absolutely fantastic questions from audiences for my Seed Talks on Studio Ghibli. They often raise points I hadn’t thought about before, or give me completely new angles on topics I’ve been over many times. Having let so many of these brilliant insights vanish down Memory Lane I thought I’d try and recall […]




