By Originally billed as Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, the narrative around “The Boy And The Heron” soon changed after its premiere as it became clear Miyazaki has opted to end any more retirement plan talk.
Instead, like Ridley Scott or Tom Cruise, Miyazaki is someone who looks set to keep doing what he’s doing until he’s physically no longer able.
In a recent interview, Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki was asked by THR about whether or not he thinks the helmer of such masterpieces as “Spirited Away,” “Princess Mononoke” and “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind” will truly retire one day.
Suzuki says Miyazaki was actually embarrassed about coming out of his earlier retirement after “The Wind Rises” to do “The Boy and the Heron”:
“It was only three years after he announced his retirement, and at that time, I honestly believed that we wouldn’t be making any more films together. [Miyazaki] said that because ‘I found it quite embarrassing to come back after announcing that I’ll be retiring, I won’t be showing myself in public.”
Suzuki says he originally wasn’t going to approve Hayao’s idea for the movie which he described as “epically pessimistic”. Now, though, he says, “I am happy that I didn’t say no”.
The movie topped the box-office in North American theaters during its opening weekend, and has also been nominated for Best Animated Film at this year’s Academy Awards.
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