Thanks so much, I’m glad you liked it! Like you said, he’s such an interesting character whether you agree with all of his opinions or not. I had a blast making this so it’s great to see people enjoying it and continuing the conversation in the comments.

@@ArchieTalksAnime Hell yeah! Keep it up with the videos man!

Speaking as an animator for Disney back then, the company was actually scared of Miyazaki seeing as how his work was blowing Disney out the water. That deal was partially made to control and profit off him.

​@@ArchieTalksAnimei really cant stop watching this video, compared to others ive seen about hayao's persona this is definitely the best.

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Yeah he has a complicated relationship with Japan, that’s for sure. He definitely isn’t a fan of otaku culture and he has little patience for politicians -- I remember the time he called Shinzo Abe “despicable” when Abe was Prime Minister.

He hates all those politician

@@ArchieTalksAnime abe was though

@@ArchieTalksAnime Abe was a raging NeoLiberal prick economically who is the reason Japan is printing the Yen at a negative interest rate now so I am not a fan myself.

​@@snoot6629Can you please tell me what were the despicable things done by Abe?

Like how do you even cut it, what was going to be excluded

@@InamMaqondose-ny8zf IKR, animation is more precise than live action in storytelling. There isn't really much in the way of wasted footage or deleted scenes (unless you're Disney). That's how tight animation is, and that's why it makes no sense to try and edit a complete product like Miramax was handed.

That’s because Harvey only cared about dominating other people, he didn’t give a shit about storytelling.

And to think (or worse, be sure) that you could convince an auteur like Miyazaki that you know better than him what is best for his films is the height of arrogance. Of course, we are talking about Weinstein, so that's par for the course.

It’s funny. I first saw “ Warriors of the wind” on cable in 1985, and it was absolutely the most brilliant animated film had ever seen. The fact that it was what we then called “Japanimation” just made it that much more remarkable because the only anime we saw on the United States in those days was pretty sloppy and man stuff like battle of the planets and speed racer. And while I always watch those shows, I was conscious of their animation, being pretty weak, even as a kid. So seeing “warriors of the wind” blew me away, and I videotaped it and showed to some of my friends who had no interest in cartoons, and they all loved it too. A year or two later, I learned that the movie was massively, trimmed down from its original length, and I was super Duper excited to eventually track down the full film, but I have took me for freaking ever because anime is extremely niche and the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. And while it is really popular to crap on “ warriors of the wind,” a horribly bastardized version of, “Nausicaa,” I have always been very grateful for the movie. Yes it is absolutely positively inferior to the *real* movie, But It was also my first exposure to something so brilliant. Had it not been for that mutilated version of the film I would never have heard of the guy, and I would never have sought out his other stuff. “A little of something is better than all of nothing,” after all. And I will be the first person to admit that the Warriors of the wind dub is pretty weak and inconsistent, but credit where credit is due: the people they hired to voice act in that version of the movie were professional voice actors. They didn’t have enough information to do a really good job, but they did at least bring a level of energy and distinction to it. I really do not think that the Disney dub is much better, and their choice to view people like Claire Danes, as the voice of the princess was really uninspired stuntcasting, as her performance is much more flat and boring than the character was in the shitty 80s version. Which is not so much me defending the 80s version as it is me insulting the Disney dub :)

deserves respect as well

Ever heard the saying “never meet your hero’s?” I think that applies very well to Miyazaki, dude does not seem like a nice person generally, and has some very strong opinions about both america and his own country. He seems to be filled with a lot of contempt and hate, which is sad to see.

@@griffin1095 is he or do you phrase it that way to feel better about how bitter you feel knowing he's not saying what you want to hear?

@@samuraijosh1595 you can take what I said however you want, won’t change everything we’ve already seen from him in interviews and accounts of people who worked with him. He’s just not a very nice dude, but he makes amazing movies. I really could care less how he feels about america, and it’s sad that he hates much of Japan.

@@samuraijosh1595​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠I’ve met and heard many people that interacted with the guy, let’s just say if you’re expecting a man with strong opinions on life expect an image of that one Simpsons meme “Old man yelling at cloud.”

And America just happen to be the biggest warmonger and instigator on the planet.

He should look up what Japan did to China then

@@SaulFavela-ld8kt Actually, Miyazaki does play both sides, just being anti-war while doing so. He acknowledges the bad stuff that his country did during the war. For example, he became infamous in Japan for a while because he *went on public record as acknowledging the existence of the "Comfort Women," the fact that it was an atrocious war crime, and saying that reparations should be made.* A statement that ENRAGED much of the nation of Japan because as we all know, they love to deny how that particular atrocity even happened at all. I think his viewpoint is just that two wrongs don't make a right. But he's also being stupidly overly idealistic, because there's no fucking way that his country was just going to be talked down to stop the war. They HAD to be crushed by a superior military force or they were going to conquer the entire Pacific Rim. This is the part that Miyazaki seems naive about, and it's due to idealism. He somehow thinks that you can stop a war without going to war with the people waging it, lol.

Your last point exactly, and that is becoming the major issue with people today, they are idealistic to the point of denying reality because they don’t agree with it.

@@SaulFavela-ld8kt If you like to go back, look into the history of mainland China before it became China and you will see more cruel episodes. The underlying cruelty of the Chinese people is what China is proving today.

Funny that you think hollywood is "all of the wrong people in America" as if the rest of America is that much better.

And he defeated them :D

@@NeostormXLMAX He also hated the CCP, not just America. He, pretty much, hated any government that participated in any actions that disregarded human life. That includes His own nation. This is the first time I’ve seen someone describe him as a socialist.

Hollywood is ground zero for communism, progressive left, wokism etc.

​@@user-wp5no6cn2bcalm down kanye

To be fair, the use of AI in the case showcase to Hayao would be gross to anyone

Hope it didn't kill the presenter's enthusiasm for the tech and what he can accomplish with it one day. I'm guessing part of the hate from Miyazaki was that its technology that is taking away a human element in creation. The AI has to somewhat decide/guess what it would do. And being that it had a human form it seemed more of an abomination on the screen. If he would have animated such a thing it would have a human creating/animating everything about it. It would be just that, an animated object made with a purpose. The AI there had no real purpose other than to crawl. There is no feeling and purpose to it. A thing born to be an inferior to its creators and viewers. An object to crawl around and suffer on a screen. Or I'm just overthinking this and he just plain as day thinks its gross.

@@buster5661 No, surprisingly a lot of bizarre people out there like gross/deformed things like that. I'll never understand it, but it's popular. Especially in the anglo world.

@@shin-ishikiri-no well, that's why I refuse to watch some Ghibli movies, because of how gross they are

​@@buster5661 I can understand why you think the movies are gross, your standard is Ai.

He cares for money. If he didn't, he wouldn't have made a deal with Disney to make money in America.

@@TheMochan555 That's true for virtually every person ever, but you can see by how he values other things more than money too, like keeping certain things in his movie when others wanted to cut it for no reason. If ALL he cared about was money, he wouldn't care about the cuts.

@@TheMochan555 Or maybe he wanted his movies to reach the audience across the sea?

@@TheMochan555 People need to eat. It's impossible to exist and stay alive in any "modern" country without having money. It's how you act around the money which shows your true nature.

@@TheMochan555 Disney is how he can reach western audiences to spread his anti-war message and human universalism.

Honestly the older I get the more I see where he is coming from

For Mei still. Love japan

Nope. He’s qualified to dislike things about his own country. With how foolish weeboos can be, he doesn’t have to always like his fans. Especially with how they glamorize the style but act like hicks in rainbow wigs.

America won the war. I don't think Miyazaki is in a position to complain about the 'Americanization' of Japan.

@@Laissez-faire402so much for Freedom, you hypocrite!

He's clearly all three

I think it’s pretty clear by his comments about Hollywood in general, and the fact that he refuses to even set foot in the country in order to accept an award, I think it goes a little beyond just disliking the US military, I’m sure that’s how it started but it certainly comes off as a general distaste for anything and everything American to me, not that I particularly care one way or another

​@@yasminc7827 How is Japan less free?

exactly

Miyazaki only hates 1 of the 35 countries in America: USA

Ya don't burger????

@@r3tr0sp3ct3rhe’s just frustrated it’s not hate he didn’t like the ccp

I mean hus hate for gov and how American films kinds made him an asshole. The dude is dissing on what we eat and drink.

He even say Lotr glorify war and portray Asian as evil 😂😂😂

Really? For me personally, Miyazaki is the type of person that the more you get to know them the more conflicted my opinion of them becomes. The duality of his all-round unpleasant nature with his commendable stance against war and human cruelty leaves me unsure whether to like him or not.

what? how? i didnt watch many of his movies, only 3 i think, but i love him personally, he's so real, i don't get why people are so offended by the truth(I'm Chinese), after watching this video made me feel its time to watch all his movies lol

@@imbadatdis Honestly this video does Miyazaki a service and makes him look very rational and moral, but when you take a look at his other statements and see his interviews, I think you’ll find that he can often be quite irrational and can have an unpleasant attitude to others.

Yeah, absolutely. The guy is a legend for all the amazing films he’s given us, but I wouldn’t want to be his son and have to follow in his footsteps, that’s for sure! Personally I think Tales From Earthsea gets too much hate -- it’s not on Hayao’s level, but there’s still a lot to like about it.

@@ArchieTalksAnimeactually it was because the movie wasn’t like the source material like the movie was based from the books and they made it so different it might as well been called a different film Miyazaki liked doing films with source material and not doing is to him like extremely bad

I appreciate that Miyazaki didn't want his son to gain a career through nepotism, but his words were pretty cruel.

As a producer i can understand Miyazaki sans disownment 😆 Wish I could take t/ challenge 😎

Father and son not being that close usually is not stuff of planetary drama. It's kind of cheap to cheesify it from the outside. Or use it for a completely different topic... (He also doesn't treat him less fairly, but perhaps more fairly, than he would another inexperienced newcomer director. And he is personally involved or affected by some of Goro's weird choice in the Earthsea movie... Which was probably one of many details which led the author of the Earthsea books to also be disappointed and in fact resentful that Hayao Miyazaki didn't direct it himself, as she'd hoped. I myself respect the Earthsea books and am not interested in the movie based on the vibes I'm getting.) And as far as I know, his son is actually the architect, or something, of the Ghibli museum (and he sounds smart in that area in some snippets). So take from that what you will, but it's not hate, much less "being disowned".

He just doesn't like the destructive materialism, solipsism/narcissism, hedonism, individualism & lack of any deeper values of American culture. His films also show that. For example, in Spirited Away, when Chihiro's parents thought they arrived at some theme park (the American attitude to life) and started indulging in gluttony was a scathing repudiation of the American way of life. In Porco Rosso he also made fun of the American conception of love through that American pilot, Curtis, whose advances got rejected by two women.

@@SC-gw8np And what does he actually know about American culture? He'd probably take some umbrage at an American filmmaker depicting Japanese attitudes as masochistically self-sacrificing and collectivist to a fault, but it would be fair play, since it would be the same caricature he made of a culture he doesn't actually understand. Fuck him and his overrated movies.

@@SC-gw8np Trust me as a Canadian, I've run into a lot of unnecessary challenges, when talking about our big brother country. They're somethings that many Americans really don't like talking about. Those are fighting words, please be extremely careful. Somethings are best said through Art, especially the complicated things.

@@shada0 Yeah, trust me, I don’t express myself like this in real life, lol! I know better than to put myself in the direct line of fire of malignant ignorance.😅

​@@SC-gw8np Strawman argument

To be honest The animation really wasn't that good

@@leon.brockiI don’t think he had a problem with the animation I think he had a problem with the message/theme the animation was going for.He never sad the animation was bad he just said he doesn’t want to be a part of making horrific imagery.I don’t he’s a fan of body horror🙃

@@leon.brocki that is probably from PS1/PS2 era so that was amazing

I love it too. It is an emotional rollercoster. First the guy seems genuinely happy to show his prototype and miyazaki is completly out of touch too but his opinion seems to coldshower the guy so much I almost feared he would cry

Even I know that AI generated is mostly a threat 😢

@ricardohoang8452 I'm not so afraid. Have you seen AI art? It's horrible, artists are safe.

@@ffelegal No, I’m so worried about companies will use AIs to fire more employees for stupid reasons

@ricardohoang8452 that's true bro. I saw a video from a youtuber I like saying exactly that. AI doesn't exist but it's going to ruin everything anyway (by Angela Collier). Let's hope AI do some weird buggy shit and those managers got fired.

A storyteller showing disgust with the lack of storytelling of USA and the lack of art of CGI.

@@aoeu256 This is nonsense. We think, we feel, we are sentient. Computers are not. Computers by themselves are incapable of making art. That hideous zombie thing crawling around by itself without any context expresses nothing creatively or says anything about anything. It's a soulless tech demo and looks awful. And I say this as a video game dev, so don't accuse me of being anti computer-graphics.

​@@aquarius5719Which is hilarious since Muricans do far more art than most nations on Earth.

@@aoeu256 Brains are survival machines. Art is a form of disguise for living creatures. Computers do not do art. They crunch numbers. The difference is that there is a translator that turns numbers into frequencies in a screen. Unplug the electricity and the art is gone Even AI cannot create, it can only remix data sets. An artist does art in a different way. He/she physically create on a paper.

Then what about introducing the idea, that proper AI that can think for themselves and have emotions can create their own art for themselves.

not sure what makes you label him as cynical. he's not someone who is distrustful of human nature and motives. he's a realist. his films are meant for the wider audience with several messages embedded in them, both on the surface as well as deeper inside. many such messages often run social commentary on various aspects of human nature in introspect. introspection reveals strengths and weaknesses in oneself. but introspection is not analogous with cynicism. cynical people are set to default state of being distrustful. introspection is a neutral state that weighs each case separately. its about amalgamation of the good and bad in a person. people are not black and white. and that's why to see it as "miyazaki movie optimistic, miyazaki pessimistic" is a very very skewed way of looking at the man. its a good thing you've seen all the documentaries and interviews as you claim. but I suppose this is a case of not being able to see the glimpse into the true nature of things even when one delves deeper into something.

@@blingbling2841I’m assuming they mean that he’s a cynic in the commonly used sense. He rarely ever has a good word to say about the real world openly at all.

everything good he has to say about humanity is in his work. that's y they r so beloved and that's what has prompted this exact video to be made. mbe he is cynical bcz everyone demands him to spell everything out for them and don't bother to make an effort to be a bigger person with an open heart to the wonders this life can offer 😂

Have you seen the one where he's going on an adventure following St-Exupery's tracks? He's really happy in this one

@@youthoughtaboutit6946 I understand where you're coming from but I don't think that's what he meant. OP calls him a true cynic, so I don't think it means in the commonly used sense. Instead here's my understanding. He is a true optimist. And at the same time he's a realist. True optimism is hidden underneath realism. You have to dig into it, sometimes more sometimes a little, to find it. He celebrates life in his works. As @ghexaier said below, people demand him to spell everything out for them. Not just him of course. That is the default state with people. There are mainly two types of filmmakers. One that mainly seeks to make money. The lion's share of the pie. And there's the one that seeks for critical acclaim above everything. Miyazaki is definitely not the first. And one may claim that he is hardly the other type as well. He makes a film to arrange a story together that can be served as a dish to his audience. To teach people something subtly. Through the main theme and social commentary of the story as well as through the deeper hidden messages. To teach people about life. Life as in the concept of Life itself. The Organicity of Life itself. But also life as in daily life and the amusing, mundane yet impermanent nature of it. Omoide Poroporo (Only Yesterday) & Yamadas are perfect examples of this. And lastly Life as in the struggles of people and the state of the world we live in that constitutes our lives as indicated by the several anti-war films of his. So if he says one thing on camera and you find that harsh and cynical and you see him make a different kind of statement through his films, he isn't doing anything different in them. Why? Because you feel his movies are about optimism. Yes they are, and they aren't at the same time. Optimism doesn't shine in a vaccum. It shines the brightest against adversity. Without darkness, without overwhelming darkness it is hard to see optimism at its finest. You don't hold a diamond out in the sun to see the finesse, you place it against a dark velvety background and it is basically UV light that is usually used to screen real and synthetic/fake diamonds. What I mean to say is, we are all familiar with the saying "every dark cloud has a silver lining". This is what the optimism in Miyazaki's films looks like.

lol its kinda comical cause you wouldnt think zombies would be miyazakis thing, but at the same time i have found parts of miyazakies art kinda disturbing and grotesque. there are parts of it that a surreal.

Yes ahah in Japan people rarely say their true opinion if it’s a negative one! It is almost perceived as an attack

Miyazaki understood that this AI stuff was horseshit years before it even tried to show it's ugly face.

@@SinHurr ai will win whether artists like it or not. people bout to get fucked hard. the second industrial age except this time the machines will replace humans.

Japanese people are not usually honest xD so that took all of them offguard. Honesty in Japan is a priviledge only reserved for high figures or top bosses. And even then not all of them are honest. It contrast heavily with Miyazaki which is TOO honest even for western standards.

It just shows that us Americans will always love the guy and his movies no matter how much he shits on us.

@@Karlach_ pretty much true glad the Academy was willing to give the man more recognition for his work 👏 🙌

A more undeserved award I'm not aware of, it's execrable, and this is from a super fan, so far we've worn out 2 boxed dvd sets and care on our third.

that was ai generated one the likes of which we are seeing nowadays, he has no problem with cgi animation , he has even worked with cgi animators

man calls Fantasia 2000 terrible. lmao

​@@Nijin8492 he's hatred towards America makes him blind to see a good animation

​@@Nijin8492Probably because it's just Spectacle with Little story. No one says Fantasia has the deepest Disney story.

His problem wasn't with it being cgi, his problem was with it being AI generated.

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed it! If you liked this video, I just posted one about Joe Hisaishi's life and career that you'll probably enjoy, too!

@@ArchieTalksAnime Excellent. I'm a big Hisaishi fan also. Subscribing.

How else is a zombie supposed to walk? Should zombies do hand-stands?? I feel like if Miyazaki sees a zombie and thinks of disabled people that's his problem. It should be obvious that nobody intends to draw that parallel, but he can't see past his own subjective knee-jerk reaction. It's like like the people who criticize orcs in fantasy because they think they resemble black people.

​@@easttowest7839 Exactly!!

@@easttowest7839 i agree, just providing context so it doesn't seem like he's anti-3D animation or whatever

This sounds like some shit a Twitter user would say.

@@OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOq Described? I thought it was a visual animation

they dont understand that money is a by product not the end goal. the end goal is to create or produce the best you can. from movies, to building houses, to washing dishes, to playing video games.

Why are you typing like that?

You realize that Miyazaki's films have repeatedly broken Japanese box office records and are beloved by mainstream audiences, right? To suggest zero financial considerations go into his films is absurd.

@@Laissez-faire402well yeah of course money matters but an artist values art more than money corporations (especially American ones) on the other hand are the exact opposite which is why he doesn’t like them

he doesnt like japanese corporations either

Interaction between Japanese culture and European/western cultures is a pretty interesting dynamic to say the least. They seem to be pretty fond of certain aspects of western culture but undermine the culture as a whole. They love baseball, European architecture and all things western as a whole. They even have a copy of the Eiffel tower as the landmark of their capital. I’m curious about what Japanese people really think and not what is pushed by their strict, highly traditionalist, nationalistic culture that people in the country are subjected to by birth.

Even now, I think the more we talk seriously about history and war, the more disgusted we become with each other. Still, the biggest reason why Japan has become more familiar with and interested in America than just hatred is, I think it's because Japan and America literally have completely opposite values. I believe that this relationship is far more distant than the relationship between Asian and Western cultures, which are generally contrasted. Many people have learned firsthand that logic and aesthetics exist even in completely opposite values, and that they have an appeal that is different from the aesthetics of their own country. That's why, although it may seem contradictory, to sum it up, I think America is a very special country for Japan.

I am an Asian who loves Europe but hates America. What I like about Europe is its rich history, how democracy developed in Greece, how Christianity teaches people to love thy neighbours, how freedom of speech is valued, the mythologies, the romanticism, the richness of culture. What I hate about America is its mass production of loads of garbage, junk food, superficial blockbusters of Hollywood, soul-less cities and skyscrapers, cliché and boring pop music. To me, America is a cultural desert that happened to sit on the top of the hegemony of the world and that has a very bad impact on the whole world. I understand that British colonialism was bad too, but at least British in the 19th century has good taste. I can totally understand why Miyazaki hates American culture so much.

I think americans are way to sensitive.

@@einsam_aber_frei Well as an European, I appreciate your view of Europe, but for example I can tell you that freedom of speech is currently dying here, while it seems to be much stronger in America.

For real, LOL! 🤣

It's for the american. they love zombies, so Miyazaki smacked them

You see the guy sitting far left? He is Kawakami, the CEO of an IT company Dwango that owns Nicovideo. You can say he is an annoying techbro in Japan

This thread is hilarious. You're all what Miyazaki loath. No original thoughts.

@@_loss_ pretty ironic coming from you

I think the reason for the dislike of jeans, coke etc. is in parts due to americanisation and of course also because of his dislike of US politics. I like many of the things that come out of America (and dislike many others) but I feel it eroding my country's culture. This happens across the entire world. It's not so much that these things are bad, it's also about what is lost by accepting them.

Jeans? Did he really say that? Didn't watch the video yet. Why even bother wearing a western style suit then

​@@ninototo1 100% this. I'm American but Miyazaki's view toward Americaization isn't that uncommon especially amongst older generations from Asia, Europe. A lot of older people remember a time before culture globalization, before mass media. They don't hate Americans, they just hate Americanization and the erasure of their old ways oc life. Miyazaki's old enough to remember a time before mass media, a time when many people in Japan still wore traditional clothes in the streets. I think he has every right to draw a funny doodle to express his frustration with jeans.

@@baronvonjo1929 I mean, Americans didn't invent the "business suit."

​@@bobwilliam2634 A bunch of fuddy duddies being mad that their culture accepted different things from the old way of life. It's pathetic tbh.

Cheers bro, I appreciate the support and kind words! Glad you enjoyed the vids!

My head says it will be his last film, but my heart tells me he has another one in him! I was just reading an interview with Joe Hisaishi, and he said: “This is a completely personal opinion of mine, but I don’t think it’s his final film.” So, fingers crossed! I get the feeling he’d be even more grumpy if he had nothing to work on 😅

He's really old. He may not be able to even if he wanted to.

@@jamesdrake3651 Yeah, sad but true. And it’s not like he’s known for working fast. If he’s going to make another one he’ll have to get started on it ASAP.

@@jamesdrake3651 I mean he's 83, that's old byt there's other directors in the same age categort/older than him that are still making movies! Scorsese, Stephen Frears, Coppola, Ridley Scott... hell, Eastwood is 93 and has a movie coming out this year.

@@pasdepseudooriginal Wow I actually didn’t know that Eastwood had a new film coming out, I’ve just been reading about it. Great cast, I’m looking forward to that. But yeah you’re totally right, there’s a bunch of active filmmakers in that age bracket so you never know - if Miyazaki lives to Eastwood’s age then he might even have time for another two films yet 😂

Interesting.

Because for as great of an artist Miazaki is, and for as much as I respect his work, he is also a very bitter man who often show a "my way or the highway" attitude. He wants to create art, and that is repepctable, but it has to be *his* art. And when it is *his* art it's great and with tons of fantastic themes and points to talk about, but when it's someone elses art it becomes frustrating because he has to make it *his* art. That's why he's so strict about it, because it's *his* art. Honestly, I'm a bit frustrated nobody else has brought this up. He's so idolized that it's hard to talk about him and mentioning his flaws or see people challenge his takes because he is held in such high regards. He is a true artist through and through, and I admire his dedication to art. But like I said, he's also very bitter and this bitterness can lead him to be elitist or even ignorant. He isn't this perfect wise man people tend to make him out to be, he's just human with flaws and everything.

​@@Rodoet001Omg someone with the same view of Miyazaki as me? Amen

@@sanada-sama8303 He is one of my prime argument for separating the art from the artist. His art is genuinly fantastic and I love it all. But as a person I can't stand him.

⁠@@Rodoet001i agree with you, there some things I got to disagree with Miyazaki here.

Yea like can anyone blame the man for what he went through, he has every right to feel the way he feels

@@yonaguy6978 glad you get it 😁

in this case, miyazki words are a gun whose bullet is stronger than a nuke and also stronger than A greedy CEO's cannon whose power is an empty plastic bag

I always though their earlier studios did a The Hobbit animated film

Ding ding ding. If you ever see Miyazaki criticize something, it's a short skip and a jump to figuring out what the American connection is. He hates smart devices-they were invented in the wrong country. If I'm being perfectly frank about it all, people are bending over backwards here to forgive him for being a rather terrible person who generalizes hate in an awful way, just because he also made some good movies. And I say that as someone who will forever consider _Nausicaa_ a top 5 favorite of all time.

@@Asterra2I don’t think that it’s a problem of the phone being invented in the United States, No face in Spirited Away is a good example of how Miyazaki has a strong dislike of modern industry in general, phones a part of that. I forget where it was from I just don’t really feel like explaining it, but basically No face is a representation of Japanese industry destructive and glutinous but when he goes to the witch’s house he just does some tailoring in a nice and calm. Modern industry bad cottage crafts good.

@@Asterra2he hates all modernity. he has said that he can't wait until the Japanese economy and population crash and nature swallows up civilization.

After this Im kinda viewing Miyazaki in a negative light, he kind of is like a child in a sense. Here you have Tolkien who fought in an actual war and even resented the negative view of the Germans after, someone who experienced death yet never put hate towards his enemy. Then you even have his father who truly lived through the war and after coincided with what he had been apart. Yes the bombs were a mistake but Miyazaki really only lived through the war after. He kinda lacks the understanding of what had been done and the repercussions of that which I dont blame him. But he is just coming off as some racist grumpy old man

like the people but hate the government

he was a communist, was also a massive unionist

@@budakbaongsiah wow you mean like ussr commie type?

@@haruyu123 kind of

Maybe he didn't like being bombed by 2 nuclear bombs thar destroyed two Japanese cities?

The only thing sicker than people who love war, is people who believe nothing is worth a war. Pathetic creatures.

Miyazaki chose not to reveal what he overheard his fellow Japanese boasting War crimes committed in China. 🤷

@@peekaboopeekaboo1165 And... also pretty much everywhere they were. I mean, if you wanna be honest- their war crimes list is significantly longer than the spicy windmill guys' list.

Well after the famine and deaths , suffering done under communism I wouldn't blame him for leaving the party.

the original communists had massively positive views of the US, exchanging letters with Abe Lincoln, etc and many great things about the US came from american communists.(the free speech movement of the 1890s, for example). Remember, communists saw america as the closest to a socialist one, almost proto-socialist as a "dictatorship of the people" and a progressive, free country. Obviously, post war, new left/cominterm communists would be different, I don't know much about the JCA.

Japan was bombed by the U.S. twice, whole cities, full of civilians mind you and after the war they never said: that was a crappy move but just shamelessly started to sell American things to Japan. I'd be pissed, too.

@@marikothecheetah9342 China and a whole lot of South East Asia would like to have a word about never apologizing for war crimes.

He started off as a commie, but deep down he was a pacifist who hated war and he realized that communism doesn’t represent his values. My theory at least.

He may be Miyazaki but he's also only human.

there are some criticisms by africans scholars and novels of Conrad's book, so it's not exactly a perfect depiction of the natives it, i assume if the movie is a faithful adaptation of the boom then it might have the same problem

@@Marcus-gw4bbhe sure doesn’t seem to think he’s human, more like above everyone else

That would be so cool! Bluth is an absolute legend, it would be fascinating to see a mashup of his and Miyazaki's styles.

He thinks all cartoons in general to be hideous, I dont think it would be that different from his opinions on Fantasía 2000

@@UnLancheroMuyPenudo Miyazaki honestly comes off as a snobby supremacist and nationalistic traditionalist, and people seem to tolerate it because he's a great artist and interesting guy with some wisdom. I have a hard time taking his opinions/stances seriously when it's anything outside his wheelhouse of life-wisdom, nature, and art. And even for the last one, I'm not sure when he talks about non-Japanese art.

Miyazaki turned out to be a "never meet your heros" example.

I'm sorry, but a nationalist? I'll need some more evidence for that one. He's not really a traditionalist either. Many of his films deal with the loss of traditions in the wake of inevitable modernity, which is a common theme in Japanese society with the arrival of Western Industrialism. You can trace this sentiment back to the beginning of the Meiji era if feeling inclined to. His films tend to reach a synthesis of accepting the new while salvaging what we can of the old. @@Noahthelasercop

How could you possible interpret it the other way around?

@@CarlosLopez-wb2qnit’s a movie about understanding Americans. That’s the whole point of the movie. You see a horrible war through the eyes of Joker, a war journalist. It’s messed up and he sees horrible things that really weigh on his mind.

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116that’s Full Metal Jacket 😅

@@CarlosLopez-wb2qn Miyazaki was correct in a vague sense, about Vietnam movies featuring a theme of not understanding things. However, the thing being poorly understood is the war itself. The war occurring in Asia or anywhere else has nothing to do with the mental rejection. The US force was a mostly conscript army, the kids getting drafted have young-adult things on their minds, and the war is a big angry interruption. They're not the type to think like geopolitical strategists. And they definitely don't think their lives are worth the risk, either. So there is a mental block in them, where they don't want to get invested. The problem is that they got called up at all, and they will never care about why or for whom they got called. Whether the war was in Asia, Africa, Middle East, South America, ALL of it is equally irrelevant to their wishes. Nothing to do with Asians specifically.

​@@CarlosLopez-wb2qnit had nothing to do with the Vietnam War and Asians other than the war is the setting and the people living there are Asians. These garbage takes are what happens when people stop reading books.

I didn’t agree with miyazaki when he said the fantasia 2000 movie is terrible

@@AbimaelLopez-hz3qq Because it is shit.

Hero chicks, too, maybe? ;)

You somehow still sounds bother by him with that comment tbh lol.

@@sw-gs how

goro? yes, even in his adult life, miyazaki still threw shit at his own son

@@oniplus4545 I don't blame him lol. Goro's Ghibli movies are sub par imo.

@@EpsilonKnight2 it's really not his fault to be completely fair, he's no animator, he's an architect, it's just that ghibli higher ups for some reason choose him to handle earwig and miyazaki being miyazaki, it became a complete fuckfest

​@@oniplus4545I think Miyazaki tried to change now after Goro had his grandson. From what I've heard; He created Ponyo as an apology letter to Goro, this time giving him actual advice and helping him work on the movie instead of leaving him like how he did on "Tales from the sea"

@@toomuchclergy yeah no, miyazaki left goro once again to his own demise in earwig too and it's even worse than tales from the Earthsea tomfuckery because earwig flopped really badly, so much for ponyo being an apology, miyazaki is still miyazaki at the end of the day

That's because it allows enough freedom for you and your opponent to be seek meaning

@@cpthardluck *For now.....!*

Emphasis on for now. America is about to break into civil war due to the rise of far right fascism. Also, America is now fascilitating and enabling a genocide in Gaza backing the Isreal colinizers. Now they're sending an additional $14billion and weaopons to Israel while people over here are struggling pay check to pay check and thousands are homeless. I despise my country for this and because of their war crimes in the middle east up to now, for their the arrogance, hypocracy and hubris.

@@cpthardluck freedom? Really? You still think a capitalist shit hole that only serves the rich people wants any of that and you really think that isn't pure propaganda spewed by piece of shit? Sure thing, buddy. Whatever makes you feel better about a country that constantly attacks countries just for their resources while trying to shift the blame somewhere else. Keep on believing that propaganda and keep on liking them boots.

​@@cpthardluck There is no freedom in America

Would be better though. You don't make great stories with deep themes without Deep Thoughts and having strong Opinions yourself

The Artist will still always be connected to the Art. No one can take that away from them. Same with JK Rowling or Tolkien. No one can take those away. People can claim Separating the Art from the Artist but in practice that's not really Practical

​@@silverhawkscape2677 It's not so much that he has "deep thoughts." He's fairly childish in his disdain for the US. Or the west in general. He dislikes Tolkien even though the Lord of the Rings share many of the themes his own movies do. (And are just better story telling and world building, so from an artists point of view it should be admired)

@@crusaderman4043I don’t think hating the US is a childish thing especially with all of its foreign involvements. Hating the US because of what they did in the Middle East is actually very sensible. Also hating the US doesn’t equal to hating Americans, Miyazaki also hates on his own country, Japan.

@@quinn9074 Americans are too fucking sensitive, they freak out at the mildest criticism, or take critiques seriously and try to enter debate club mode when someone is clearly just making fun of them and taking the piss, the way Miyazaki was in his captions. And seriously I love Lotr but some Tolkien fanboys are insufferable when it comes to criticism.

Thank you Dave, you guys taking the time to leave comments like this one has been so encouraging!

Hi! Various conflicts were happening leading up to WW2, but the war officially started on September 1st 1939. As for Japan, it formally entered WW2 on September 22nd 1940 (when it invaded former French Indochina as part of its operations in China). Miyazaki was then born in January 1941 and Pearl Harbor took place in December 1941.

He probably can't approach it from the proper lens, all he sees is war, and "war bad".

That's usually the problem with war movies and I feel like that's how Howl's Moving Castle got it right. Saving Private Ryan can be an anti war movie, but the problem is it makes war look fucking cool. That's the problem with every war movie. Battle scenes are just fun to watch. The closest I've seen a war movie comes close to making war look dreary and terrible was All Quiet on the Western Front and even then the tank scene made it look scary and awesome. Hypothetically, if you were to make a war movie, it would have to be like Howl. You see the main cast (who are not soldiers) watch their home get bombed into the stone age and Howl (who does have a military role) is gradually ground down and dehumanized by the war machine until he almost looses the ability to become human again. And even then the weaponry of every military in a Ghibli movie looks cool. If you're doing a war movie you have to fund a way to make it look not cool.

@@62cky4powerthirst Look bro, maybe you just think war looks cool if nearly every war movie looks cool to you.

@@whywhy8276 It looks cool to everyone. It's why war movies are popular and it's why it's nearly impossible to make a meaningful anti-war movie. If you make the combat scenes look cool and action packed, it's all anyone is going to remember about your anti war movie. Apocalypse Now was about the horrors and pointlessness of war, but all anyone remembers about it is "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

​@@62cky4powerthirstyou should check out the 1936 version of "All Quiet on the Western Front" this is a very antiwar film and in my opinion did a better job in showing its message than the modern version.

@@Neasyorc EUA é ruim porque cria guerras e interfere em outros países... Sem contar a invasão do Iraque que foi totalmente injustificada e mesmo assim levaram a diante!! Poderia ficar o dia todo falando sobres as merdas que os EUA já fizeram!!

So Harrison 🥜💦 🤔-??

Ford actually double the pay of the swordsman

oregon trail strikes again

Indeed.

Comparto tu punto de vista, prácticamente en su totalidad. El sujeto es un artista brillante y una persona bastante idealista que ha sido capaz de plasmar sus ideas mediante su trabajo de una manera única, pero como ser humano tiene bastantes defectos. Miyazaki es una persona bastante cínica, y no puedo evitar sentir simpatía por ese lado de su persona, pero al final prevalece su afecto y apreciación profunda por las cosas buenas de la vida a pesar de todo eso, esperar excelencia humana de un artista es como esperar que un político mexicano no sea corrupto de a madres.

This segment actually brought him more of my respect

"Wiset" XD He is far from wise, this guy is ignorant, egotistic, and narrow minded who perceive things through his narrow minded perception.

Considering that his movies have repeatedly broken Japanese box office records, this is a ridiculous and pretentious statement. Regardless of whatever Miyazaki may say, money clearly plays a role in his films.

​@@Laissez-faire402You do know that Miyazaki has stated several times that he absolutely loves making movies and he hates the idea of doing them simply to make money, right? He send a death threat to Epstein when the later thought about changing Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind so it would be more "akin to western culture" and Miyazaki was 100% serious about it. There's 20 short films in the Saturn Theater in the Ghibli Museum for which the studio has received several offers so the movies could be shown in other cinemas, Miyazaki has refused every single time. The Boy and The Heron may have been an award winning movie but that's only after 3 box office disasters no one knew about (Tales of Terramar, The Tale of Princess Kaguya and The Red Turtle) He has come back from retirement *MULTIPLE TIMES* because he feels that his scripts can only be made by himself. Miyazaki cares little about money, he is an artist that loves his art to an absolute degree and who will, and currently is killing himself over dishonoring his work.

Generalizing an entire industry and comparing it to a single creator is deceitful. There are plenty of American artists who choose art over money and plenty of Japanese artists who choose money over art

@@Laissez-faire402 Abd? Money is a byproduct of good stuff, he made excellent art and the public/consumer rewarded him for that even if he dipped a few times into red, look at holywood. There is art and there is money/holywood, one is of superior quality

@@Laissez-faire402 that's a u problem of understanding miyazaki in any point.

Thanks bro, more coming soon ✌🏻

aren't they on Netflix though?

he sounds like a dick to be honest. i mean, hes against making white war movies.... like bruh, ur from the country that created lolicon.

@GokuSolosAnime just as dumb as Mr Miyazaki comparing war movies to videogame violence. both videogame violence and movie violence and war movies are a thing. for him to say these movies should be shrugged off is just weird hearing from an animator. im very anti war and detest the vietnam conflict but movies Should be made about them.

Miyazaki doesn’t hate USA he just doesn’t like the politicians and he doesn’t like politicians from around the world

@@chef7658I think there's a mistranslation of his word, he probably meant to say that movies portray war just like video games (shooting people and lots of epic explosion) even thought real war is hell since he lives through the period of war, im sure he really dislikes when war and violence is romanticized

@@chef7658 What's weird is you not understanding anything you just heard assuming you actually watched the video.

Yeah, that sounded like he was clumping the American people as a whole with the rest of the country. I would not be surprised to learn he hates Americans in general.

You'll be surprised at how many Japanese people don't like America - and many other counties - but are too polite to say anything.

@@Neasyorc Ghibli and anime fans?

They love the otaku shit, not actual Japan.

@@EugeneOneguine Yeah, that sounds like an important distinction, but not so much. No one can truly know anything, like 100%, for what it is. It's all just points of view. Each person you know sees you through their own eyes, from their own perspective. No one sees you the way you see yourself, and your own point of view of yourself is skewed as well. So, if we're going to discount people's feelings because they don't truly know the 'actual' object of their affection, then it's going to be a very lonely world.

Everything he said was completely legitimate. The “you are the ones who get shot” really resonated with me, bc it is completely true. America views the Japanese as props to entertain themselves, not as humans, yet Japanese people cheer and clap for them like seals in a circus. Miyazaki is just recognising the cuckoldry happening to his people.

thank you