Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli Rules: It Is All About Perfection
Having the opportunity to work with a master such as Hayao Miyazaki is a deep honor as much as it is challenging. This renowned director and film maker has brought us great classic films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away, but there’s a certain way of working that comes along with these momograph Studio Ghibili movies. Recent Shinsaku Kozuma’s interview reveals some lesser known details about the disciplined, as well as unconditional methods of control maintained by Miyazaki’s Productions.
The French Expression: ‘Time is Money!’
The famed art director of classic anime titles such as Iron Man: Rise Of Technovore, Hisone and Masotan and others had his encounter… Oh what am I saying, he had to have an encounter, as the industry forced him to work with the legendary Yoshinori, who in turn, worked on the birth of many early Ghibli animations with Miyazaki.
And thus it was Hideo Kozuma who breaks the news to us that at Ghibli Times Domains, arrangements territories hosted san ritsu bundori which were intolerable to be flouted on. Keeping in view Kanata’s rudeness to inside transportation, Miyasaki had no choice but to position him on the main desk.
“Kanada was that type of a character, always finding himself on the wrong side of the clock,’ giggles Mr Kozuma.
“There was not a chance that he would have arrived at ten o’clock. So he entered an office for the first time and placed a ten-thousand-yen bill into the box to pay the fines in advance!”
Cover-up for Unpunctuality and Zones where this is worn
Besides timekeeping, Miyazaki was also idiosyncratic in accord with his own rules in places, for instance regarding blood type superstitions. In Japan, it is a popular belief that people’s blood types are closely related to their character traits, and that’s the point Miyazaki was on as well.
He thinks that exactly different blood groups are important for peoples’ personalities, Kozuma stated. And he did not want them to sit people who have blood groups as B- and A- to sit at the same table in order to avoid them fighting.
It is not known whether these customs exist even today, but even if his methods appear unorthodox, it is clear that Miyazaki painstakingly strives to ensure that most of the time, the workplace is not even informal – it is serene and remains focused.
Growth with changing times
After the release of The Boy and the Heron, there are also reports that Miyazaki’s side has become more open and is actively working with animators. Possibly, age and some experience helped him to become softer and this climate it seems is much needed at Studio Ghibli.
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