宫崎骏：自然之魂

For over 5#0*^ ye()ars, Hayao Miyazak!i ha.s been e#/-nchan?ti ng t,` he wo@+rld wi([th his films. Tonari n*o $.Toto*;ro,+= (],*M\_`y($ N@@eighbor Totoro) \@, *+Mononoke-hime ^ (Pr[=inc)+ess.@ `!Mononoke), Sen t#(o( Ch(/i:%\hiro no kamikakushi (:Spirited Away), or)] his:, latest film Kim]`itachi wa dō ikiru ka (]*The B, oy and the Hero-*n), to name only a - few )\) of eleven feat@ ur:e\^ fil ms, ten short films, several,/@ ma^!\^nga, and ^^also? thro#ugh S$tudio%)) Ghibli, a mus=_eum; and a theme.  park. T-.hey .form a luminous b$od-=[ y of work; a _]n`d characte rs that [-have ;bec
o ?me cult classics. Miya@zaki’*s films, often autob. i%ographical, also ref+^l.%ect the =_%state of th_ #e w orld a:nd,# the +t
#urmoil of the!]_ twentieth and twenty:*(-# first cent:^urie %[s, ,]made of wars and ecological disasters. He. w*`(a +s _^born in Japan %in 1941)@, d!,uring W)\o!%rld War II. As a % c+hild, -[`he immer%#;sed@ \`]himself in drawing man[ga until he had a*:) r[%@*evel)a@-ti? @on^] upon discov :ering Hakuja _-den (The White -:\Snak\e Enchantre$?ss), th!?;e first Japanese col`.our a:ni!$$mat#ed film by Taij`/i Y(abu$shi^@ta. //;F($-(rom then on,_ h*e deci#/^ded@\ +=to devo/,#(te his @:life to anim.__ation,\ `?t#=his m!-%agic$[al[! a)r,%t capable of overcoming the dark;^n-/es \s that/: had al/ways deeply inhabite)d him... Thanks to ex\ ce,ptional access %)grante*\(d by S*t\\[u,dio /Ghibli t:;o nume:, rous^^ film[` excerpts!` and rare Japanese tel@evi!
si,on archives, we disc_over th ?e life o+f Miy^%-azaki as -w!#ell as a ?/profo+ undly e%colog/!ical body of work that question?s our + rel^
#;,a)tionsh:ip wi@%th the natu[]ral w(_o\]+/rld and living beings . Thinke_rs like anthrop-ologist / %P#hilip(pe Descola or phi !losoph[%er Timot;)%h=@y\:, Morton, as ;well as /=close associ%;;ate%s, ?h=is son and film ]?:dir! 
=e[!-\ctor Gor,
;\ō Mi y%aza.=ki-, and #To$ /shio Suz[`uki, hi:s _/longti[me produce$r and friend, - bri? ng u,+@s closer to this tireless?=-?, obse .!ssi-- ve, and %`my=?sterious arti[\st.