If you understand his life, you will find Hayao Miyazaki-he is both innocent and sophisticated; he hates war and loves weapons; he hates and is full of Chinese people Guilt; He hates his identity as a Japanese, and he is full of expectations for being Japanese. In his own words: "People who have no contradictions are probably boring people."
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I don't want to be a Japanese
In 1939, after Japan launched its war of aggression against China, soldiers were mobilized everywhere to fight in China. In a speech, after a certain military officer was impassioned, he asked loudly: "Is anyone not going?" The army crowd was in turmoil, shouting "Long live the emperor" slogan, and they all wished to fly over Japan with their wings. The sea, kill the Chinese. However, there was a weak soldier who walked out tremblingly and said, "My wife has just given birth to a child, so I can't go!" The people at the scene stared at the coward, and the officer called him "disloyal." The soldier cried under the turbulent mouth for two hours, and finally the officer agreed to his request. This soldier is called Katsuji Miyazaki, and his child is called Hayao Miyazaki. "Fortunately, my dad didn't have much money back then, or I would be gone."
Although "young Miyazaki Hayao and his mother"
did not go to the battlefield, Miyazaki's father still entered the aircraft factory-Nakajima Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Many fighter jets produced by this company are used for suicide attacks by the "Kamikaze Special Forces".
Other Japanese used their lives to "serve the country", but Miyazaki's father made a fortune in the war. In the latter part of the war, the aircraft company was seriously understaffed. Father Miyazaki relied on bribing quality inspectors to get through the customs and transport the defective products to the Chinese battlefield. He also triumphantly said to his children: "Anyway, war is such a stupid thing, whether you like it or not, it is better to make a good profit. No matter what his loyalty, filial piety, and the fate of his family and country." After the war, Hayao Miyazaki The uncle who had been on the battlefield came back, boasting carelessly how many Chinese he had killed and how weak the Chinese were. In Miyazaki’s opinion, adults have no reflection on war. Killing is like cutting vegetables. He even began to hate his identity as a Japanese: "How can I be Japanese? What a shame." Not only that, but also his father. He taught him to smoke and prostitute, and he boasted: "When I was your age, I already started to go to the kiln."
03
My childhood was not happy.
Hayao Miyazaki was very depressed when he was young-his head was too big and unpleasant. Like; bad grades are not popular anywhere. What his father taught him was the shrewd way of the market; while his mother always lay on the bed because she suffered from spine gangrene. The mother in "My Neighbor Totoro" is always lying in the hospital, and May and Mei can only see her mother after a while. This is a portrayal of Miyazaki's childhood life.
Because no one played with him, Hayao Miyazaki could only use his father's airplane model and airplane parts to figure out, and fell in love with weapons and even war.
This is really a contradiction. After growing up a little bit, Miyazaki was immersed in the college entrance examination. During the review period, he watched a movie that made him sleepless and sleepy-Toei's "White Snake". He saw Bai Suzhen, who was beautiful and fluttering in white, and fell in love with her. From then on, he regarded drawing comics as his hobby. After all the hardships, he finally got admitted to the university—Gakushuin University, Department of Political Economy, majoring in Japanese Industrial Theory. After entering the university, he chose Chinese as his second foreign language, and joined a school club-he originally wanted to join a comic club, animation club or something, but the school did not, so he had to choose a children's literature club that was closest to his ideals. . How many are there in this club? Legend has it that he is the only one. Since falling in love with painting, Miyazaki has been observing works like crazy, including the paintings of Osamu Tezuka and foreign animation films. There are as many as thousands of hand-painted drawings, and his life is full and comfortable. Life is like this: at the beginning, you will be confused, and your days will shine when you discover your dream. Glowing is not in the morning and night, just shining.
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"I used to be a socialist"
Hayao Miyazaki's drawings are often rejected because of his crazy imitating Osamu Tezuka. The reasons are: "Too much like Osamu Tezuka's paintings." Hayao Miyazaki tore up all his paintings and vowed never to imitate Osamu Tezuka again. He found that Osamu Tezuka was too difficult to surpass, so he changed a direction for his life——Make animated movies. Because this kind of art combines the characteristics of comics and movies, it is the most likely place for me to make a breakthrough. He began to watch a lot of live-action movies, including a movie "Lonely in the Square", which greatly changed his life. It was a story about the Korean War. A young Japanese didn't know whether to leave Japan. But at the end of the movie, he chose to stay and do something for his country. This deeply moved Miyazaki: Although his country is not good, although his country has many problems, because of this, he needs to stay and change him instead of complaining, decadent, or even fleeing. In the past, Hayao Miyazaki was ashamed of being a Japanese; now, he has begun to grow and live as his own country. Miyazaki began to read Mao Zedong and "Das Kapital", went to the streets to participate in the 1960 anti-Japan-US security struggle demonstrations, and once joined the Japanese Communist Party. However, the alliance between Japan and the United States made Miyazaki's socialist dream doomed to be unfulfilled.
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As long as you can do animation, what does it matter if you are poor? The dream that
is better to realize is to do animation movies. After graduating from university, Miyazaki became an animator at Toei. The first days were very difficult, because the salary was really low-only 19,500 yen, and the rent had to be removed by 6000.
He can only encourage himself with "Chairman Mao Quotations": "There must be three conditions to complete creative work: first, young; second, poor enough; third, not well-known."
But people can't fill up their hunger, he Start thinking about whether to change jobs. Once the company organized to watch a Soviet long-form animation-"The Snow Queen", Hayao Miyazaki once again shocked-
is such a good animation, if I can draw it, it doesn't matter if I am poor.
So Hayao Miyazaki stayed and created works such as "Wang Wang Zhongchen Collection", "Wolf Boy Ken", "The Great Adventure of the Sun Prince Halls" for Toei. During
's stay at Toei, he also met his ally for a lifetime-Gao Dianxun. Later, they left the old club together and moved through several studios. Until 1985, he established the famous
Studio Ghibli. .
06
I love my motherland, and I love justice more.
Movies made after Ghibli was established, everyone should be familiar with them-"Castle in the Sky", "Nausicaa", "My Neighbor Totoro", "Princess Mononoke", " Spirited Away". In 2013, Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" was released. The story tells the life of Japanese fighter aircraft designer Horekoshi Jiro. For the first time, Hayao Miyazaki faced the history of Japan during World War II. It happened that that year, the Japanese Ampere government planned to amend the constitution to give the green light for Japan to have an army. Hayao Miyazaki published an article, yelling at Abe: "It's too ridiculous."
"Miyazaki's article in a magazine"
He mocked politicians for not reading and losing the face of Japan in international politics. Sooner or later, his "Abenomics" will also break. The scolding Hayao Miyazaki simply mentioned the issue of comfort women, saying that on this issue, the Japanese government "should apologize and make good compensation." Do you all know? Now there are only eight existing comfort women in China. In other words, if all eight of them died, Japan would have lost eight witnesses for the evil deeds committed against China. The Japanese government is waiting for them to die. Fortunately, Japan with a conscience, like Hayao Miyazaki, is still willing to speak out for them.
06
"I hate China"
Hayao Miyazaki sympathizes with China, but he also hates China. This is another contradiction for him. In the 1980s, Hayao Miyazaki, who gained a lot of fame for "Nausicaa", was rewarded by the company and traveled to China. In this itinerary of
, in addition to sightseeing, it is more important to visit the Shanghai Art Film Factory.
The Shangmei Film Studio in the 50s and 1960s produced internationally influential animated films such as "Naos in Heaven", "Scenery", "Muddy Flute", "Little Tadpoles Looking for Mother", and "Three Monks". A group of Japanese filmmakers like Hayao Saki have admiration.
According to Hayao Miyazaki, Red China's pragmatic spirit of concentrating its efforts to do great things is the fundamental guarantee for artistic creation.
But just after Hayao Miyazaki came to Shanghai, the appearance of the leader of the Shanghai Film Studio disappointed him too much: This leader talked to him not about art or ideas, but about the press of Japanese film studios.A note about the salary system and the means of making money in Japanese films "Young Chinese have actually learned the superficiality and exaggeration of European and American film production." Hayao Miyazaki vowed that he would never go to China again, and it would be useless. In that year, he decided to abandon his Marxism. After returning to Japan, Hayao Miyazaki still drew animations according to his old ways-hundreds of thousands of drafts for a movie, all hand-made, refused to computer CG, insisted on going to work at ten in the morning and leaving work at ten in the evening, like a day for decades. . In 2014, he won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, the second winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Asia, and his dedication throughout his life has finally been recognized by the world.
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"I'm not an artist"
We usually watch Hayao Miyazaki's animations, and we always think that there are many deep ideas in his animations, which are worth watching again.
is like Hayao Miyazaki is a thinker.
But Miyazaki himself said, “I’m not an artist, don’t demonize me.” In Miyazaki’s eyes, art films are probably those that criticize society and have deep hatred, but in his early years he After watching more of these movies, he felt that the shock of these movies was not as great as Chaplin's "Modern Times".
"The audience enters the cinema to liberate from the unfreedom of real life. In order to vent their frustrations, seek self-affirmation and longing, and find the power to face reality-even if only a little bit."
His films have never been bitter and enmity, and they have always ended in a happy ending. He doesn't need the audience to think deeply about his work, he just needs to be happy after watching it.
"My movie is just good to watch once, no need to watch so many times. It is a waste of time."
and he still values the box office very much, and often sets up imaginary enemies for himself.
In 1997, the box office of "Princess Mononoke" exceeded 20 billion, which was the highest-grossing film ever in Japan. Unexpectedly, after a year, this record was broken by "Titanic".
"Stills of "Princess Mononoke""
Hayao Miyazaki was heartbroken. Four years later, he launched "Spirited Away" with a box office of 30 billion, breaking the Japanese box office record.
"Spirited Away" stills
As of last year, Hayao Miyazaki monopolized three of the top five movies at the box office in Japan ("Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke", "Hah's Moving Castle" ).
"Stills of "Howl's Moving Castle""
He also opposed critics' excessive interpretation of his film.
His films are often regarded as "environmentalism". He said angrily many times: "I really want to catch those critics."
Some people say he is a feminist. He replied:
" The reason why I draw so many women in my movies is purely because I like girls with big breasts." The
animation is not so idealistic or heavy.
After watching the animation, I know that there are still many beautiful things happening around you in this world, and there are many unknown creatures, like My Neighbor Totoro, wolf god, and moving castles around you.
Your life is not monotonous, your life is not boring.
once watched a Hayao Miyazaki movie, forget it, reinvest in life, and live with a braver attitude.
